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WAGE SCALE

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• WAGE SCALE (noun)
The noun WAGE SCALE has 1 sense:

1. a schedule of wages paid for different jobs

Familiarity information: WAGE SCALE used as a noun is very rare.

• WAGE SCALE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A schedule of wages paid for different jobs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

wage scale; wage schedule

Hypernyms ("wage scale" is a kind of...):

graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wage scale"):

sliding scale (a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index)

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks."
(English proverb)
"Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"An unshod mocks a shoe."
(Arabic proverb)
"If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is."
(Egyptian proverb)

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Pronunciation of graduated table
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