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starvation wages

noun plural

: money paid to workers that is not enough to pay for the things (such as food and shelter) that are needed to live

Full Definition of STARVATION WAGES

:  wages insufficient to provide the ordinary necessities of life
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First Known Use of STARVATION WAGES

1870

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