alteration modification adjustment | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) |
wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
adjustment registration readjustment | the act of adjusting something to match a standard |
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 |
wage claim pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
wage concession | an agreement to raise wages |
adjustment accommodation fitting | making or becoming suitable, adjusting to circumstances |
earner wage earner | someone who earn wages in return for their labor |
allowance adjustment | an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances, an allowance for profit |
seasonal adjustment | a statistical adjustment made to accommodate predictable fluctuations as a function of the season of the year, seasonal adjustments for housing starts must be made in mid-winter |
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 |
adaptation adaption adjustment | the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) |
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 |
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 |
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 |