WAGE SCALE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A schedule of wages paid for different jobs

Synonyms:

wage scale; wage schedule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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)

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