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low-wage

 
 
adjective [before noun]

Definition

HR used to describe jobs for which or places in which workers are paid little: They are lowering costs by moving production to low-wage countries.
(Definition of low-wage adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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