"wage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Appalled at the annual wakes week, with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool, and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements, Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday.
- It has a time display like the national debt ticker, and you have to feed it hard-earned wages (a coin of any currency will do) to make it shut up.
- This would leave future generations with no benefits from a fund into which they poured their hard-earned wages.
- After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw.
- He continues his efforts to protect the hard-earned wages of working families and individuals with low to moderate incomes.
- This bureaucracy, they argued, was taking the hard-earned wages of middle-class taxpayers and giving them to others, be they welfare mothers or foreign investors clipping coupons on government bonds.
- Donald can spend his hard-earned wages by buying various items such as ladders and swings for a playground for his nephews to enjoy.
- In revenge, Vera threatens to destroy the porcelain figurines Grace purchased with her hard-earned wages from the local town shop.
- Did he not come here to-day and pretend he would take a situation--pretend he would share his hard-earned wages with us until you were well?
- After working five weeks as an illegal laborer on a Moscow construction site, Ivan, a Ukrainian crane operator, was heading home to Kiev last October with his hard-earned wages carefully hidden where the Moscow police could not find them.
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