wage slave

English

Low-paid jobs such as fast food retail are often associated with wage slavery.

Noun

wage slave (plural wage slaves)

1. 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.

2. (informal) Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.

Synonyms

• slave to the wage
• (4chan, Internet slang) wagecuck, wagie

Related terms

• wage slavery, slave wage

Translations

one who works for wages

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  Mandarin: 社畜 (zh) (shèchù)

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• Dutch: loonslaaf (nl) m
• Finnish: palkkaorja
• French: esclave salarié (fr) m
• German: Lohnsklave m, Berufsmensch m
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• Japanese: 社畜 (ja) (shachiku)
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• Portuguese: escravo do salário m, escravo assalariado m
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• Swedish: löneslav c
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