Wage slave | Definition of Wage slave at Dictionary.com

noun

a person who works for a wage, especially with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor.

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First recorded in 188590

OTHER WORDS FROM wage slavewage slavery, noun

Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2020

I was as faithful a wage-slave as ever a capitalist exploited.

The wage-slave lives for the evening's liberty, the business man for his wealth, the preacher for his church.

She sat in another chair, very straight in her lavender dress, and joined with the flapper in her survey of the wage-slave.

Slave and slave-owner, serf and baron, wage-slave and capitalistso the classes have struggled.

The wage-slave, when he is out of work, must now starve or go into the workhouse and be made miserable, or commit suicide.

wage slave

ironic a person dependent on a wage or salary

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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