"wage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Leaderless and increasingly infuriated because of their paltry wages, the armies brutally crashed through the city, then a papal stronghold, leaving destruction and devastation in their wake.
- Such paltry wages as you bring me from your teaching are hardly more than might be made by one or two well-considered contracts.
- In reality, workers had to pay for things out of their paltry wages, while the compounds themselves were notorious for disease, malnutrition, and death.
- At age seventeen, she was one of eighty thousand young Cuban men and women sent to Eastern Bloc countries to work for paltry wages.
- After witnessing the paltry wages of working session musicians they turned to production.
- She says: 'They are absolutely ripe for exploitation and are working long hours for paltry wages.'
- To many of them, it is a sullen job of dark, cramped spaces, quick-tempered customers, paltry wages and an inexhaustible flow of auto exhaust.
- There he saw migrant workers, men without futures, breaking their backs all day for paltry wages and at night throwing away their cash in card games and barrooms.
- This is precisely the same as current Tory rhetoric: force people into often wholly unsuitable and thus unsustainable jobs at a paltry minimum wage, or they lose some or all of their benefits.
- Both unhappy with their contract, they claimed that they were not receiving any royalties from their hits and were being paid a paltry wage for their work.
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