wage slave
English
Low-paid jobs such as fast food retail are often associated with wage slavery.
Noun
wage slave (plural wage slaves)
- Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
- 14 June 2012, Scott Tobias, "Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time", The A.V. Club
- Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck.
- 14 June 2012, Scott Tobias, "Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time", The A.V. Club
- (informal) Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.
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Translations
one who works for wages
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