country-dance
country dancing
contredanse
contra danse
contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
| wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
| country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
raise
rise wage hike
hike
wage increase
salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
| wage floor | floor below which wages are not allowed to fall |
country music
country and western
C and W | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States, usually played on stringed instruments |
wage claim
pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
| wage concession | an agreement to raise wages |
| cross country | a long race run over open country |
country people
countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
| country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
| nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
| commonwealth country | any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
| developing country | a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
| foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
| country club | a suburban club for recreation and socializing |
| area country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography), it was a mountainous area, Bible country |
| high country | an area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline |
backwoods
back country
boondocks
hinterland | a remote and undeveloped area |
fatherland
homeland
motherland
mother country
country of origin
native land | the country where you were born |
buffer state
buffer country | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
country
state
land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
| old country | the country of origin of an immigrant |
| country rural area | an area outside of cities and towns, his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country |
European country
European nation | any one of the countries occupying the European continent |
Scandinavian country
Scandinavian nation | any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia |
Balkan country
Balkan nation
Balkan state | any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
African country
African nation | any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
Asian country
Asian nation | any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
South American country
South American nation | any one of the countries occupying the South American continent |
North American country
North American nation | any country on the North American continent |
Central American country
Central American nation | any one of the countries occupying Central America, these countries (except for Belize and Costa Rica) are characterized by low per capita income and unstable governments |
| West Country | the southwestern part of England (including Cornwall and Devon and Somerset) |
Bluegrass
Bluegrass Country
Bluegrass Region | an area in central Kentucky noted for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses |
| country doctor | a doctor who practices in the country (rather than in a city) usually remote from a modern hospital, do country doctors still make house calls? |
earner
wage earner | someone who earn wages in return for their labor |
country borage
Coleus aromaticus
Coleus amboinicus
Plectranthus amboinicus | an aromatic fleshy herb of India and Ceylon to South Africa, sometimes placed in genus Plectranthus |
wage
pay earnings
remuneration
salary | something that remunerates, wages were paid by check, he wasted his pay on drink, they saved a quarter of all their earnings |
| living wage | a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably |
| minimum wage | the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay, determined by contract or by law |
wage scale
wage schedule | a schedule of wages paid for different jobs |
| wage setter | any economic condition or variable that serves to set wage rates |
contradance
country-dance
contredanse
contra danse | perform a contradance |
| engage wage | carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns), Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe |
propertyless
wage-earning
working-class
blue-collar | of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers, party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw |
| country-bred | rough and uncouth, a country boy |
| country-style | typical of the country, country-style sausage, country music |
wage-earning
working-clas | working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries, working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor |