wage slave

English

Noun

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Wage slavery

Wikipedia wage slave (plural wage slaves)

1. someone who feels compelled to work in return for wages in order to survive
   • 14 June 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club: Weird Al’s UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time

     Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck.

Synonyms

• slave to the wage

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