Usually means: Minimum income for basic needs.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word living wage:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. living wage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. living wage: Merriam-Webster
  3. living wage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. living wage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. living wage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. living wage: Vocabulary.com
  7. living-wage, living wage: Wordnik
  8. living wage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. living wage: Wiktionary
  10. living wage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. living wage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. living wage: Dictionary.com
  13. Living Wage, Living wage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. living wage: Rhymezone
  15. living wage: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. living wage: FreeDictionary.org
  17. living wage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. living wage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Living wage: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Living Wage: Investopedia
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. living wage: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (living wage)

▸ noun:  (economics) The minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.

Similar:
board wage, minimum wage, slave wage, wage, wage stop, poverty line, wage share, shadow real wage, wage labor, wage premium, more...

Opposite:
minimum wage, poverty wage, subsistence wage

Phrases:
National Living Wage, more...

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Similar:
board wage, minimum wage, slave wage, wage, wage stop, poverty line, wage share, shadow real wage, wage labor, wage premium, more...

Opposite:
minimum wage, poverty wage, subsistence wage

Phrases:
National Living Wage, more...



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