wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
dispute contravention | coming into conflict with |
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 |
dispute difference difference of opinion conflict | a disagreement or argument about something important, he had a dispute with his wife, there were irreconcilable differences, the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats |
wage claim pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
wage concession | an agreement to raise wages |
earner wage earner | someone who earn wages in return for their labor |
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 |
quarrel dispute scrap argufy altercate | have a disagreement over something, We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America, These two fellows are always scrapping over something |
challenge dispute gainsay | take exception to, She challenged his claims |
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 |