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living wage

生活工资,活工资,生活费,生活津贴

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.

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Examples

  • The yearly income for this wage is $31,200 a year before taxes — an amount that still puts some below the living wage in many parts of the country, economists have said.

  • I was barely making a living wage, so keeping my job was critical.

  • Earning a living wage and not being desperate and exhausted all the time from working multiple jobs also makes people happier and healthier.

  • So, you don’t need a real living wage, and that still colors how badly teachers get paid now.

  • Amazon Prime shoppers need to get as many orders as they can in a day to make a living wage.

  • Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.

  • Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.

  • But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.

  • A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

  • For those living in poor communities in particular, interactions with police rarely come with good news and a smile.

  • To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.

  • The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.

  • So far as their thought is still alive these men will come into the discussion of living questions now.

  • If they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.

  • Either they are unavoidable if your living questions are fully discussed, or they are irrelevant and they do not matter.