living wage
noun [S]Definition
› enough money to buy the things that are necessary in order to live, such as food and clothes: He does make a living wage but only by working 72 hours a week.Earning money and money earnedGeneral words for amounts of moneyLarge amounts of moneySmall amounts of money
(Definition of living wage noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bank verb (MONEY)
- danger money noun
- draw verb (MONEY)
- earn verb
- earnings noun
- easy money noun
- feather your own nest idiom
- fundraising noun
- hourly adjective
- OTE noun
- paved with gold idiom
- pocket money noun (CHILD'S MONEY)
- professionally adverb
- remuneration noun
- scrape a living idiom
- stipend noun
- stoppage noun (MONEY)
- strike pay noun
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- wage noun
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