minimum wage
collocation最低工资
The government raised the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
政府将最低工资提高到每小时15美元。
工资；工钱；报酬
wages — plural of wage
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工资；工钱；报酬
money paid to a worker for a particular amount of work, usually per hour
The company pays a fair wage for part-time work.
这家公司为兼职工作支付公平的工资。
按特定工作量支付给工人的金额,通常按小时计算并以每小时金额表示。
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
报酬
something that remunerates
He used his weekly wages to buy groceries.
他用每周的工资购买食品杂货。
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Workers are demanding a higher minimum wage.
工人们正在要求提高最低工资。
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wages were paid by check
工资以支票支付。
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最低工资
The government raised the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
政府将最低工资提高到每小时15美元。
生活工资
Activists are fighting for a living wage for all workers.
活动人士正在为所有工人争取生活工资。
加薪
Employees are demanding a wage increase of 5%.
员工要求加薪5%。
工资差距
The wage gap between men and women is narrowing slowly.
男女之间的工资差距正在缓慢缩小。
小时工资
She earns an hourly wage of $20 at the factory.
她在工厂每小时工资为20美元。
生活工资
Many workers struggle to survive on less than a living wage.
许多工人依靠低于生活工资的收入艰难生存。
工资奴隶
He felt like a wage slave, trapped in a dead-end job.
他觉得自己像个工资奴隶，被困在一份没有前途的工作中。
工资差距
The gender wage gap persists despite decades of activism.
尽管经过了几十年的活动，性别工资差距仍然存在。
罪的工价乃是死。
He works hard for his wage.
他为了工资而努力工作。
一天公平的工作得到一天公平的工资。
She received her wage on Friday.
她周五收到了工资。
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Wage（工资）含‘age’，年龄越大工资越高。
语域：neutral 常见场景：employment、payment、labor agreement 作为名词时通常用于描述按时间（如周或日）支付的劳动报酬，语境中性，不特定于某一种语域。
All listed words end with the sound /eɪdʒ/, which matches the stressed vowel and final consonant of 'wage'. The common spelling chunk '-age' appears in all, though 'engage' has an unstressed prefix.
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