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An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
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superl.
Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
v. i.
To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
n.
The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
v. t.
To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
n.
To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.
v. t.
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
v. t.
To pay by settled wages.
v. t.
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
n.
A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
n.
A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
n.
A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
n.
The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
a.
Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation.
n.
One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
n.
The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.
a.
Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.
n.
An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
n.
The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.
n.
A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
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