minimum wage

English

Noun

minimum wage (usually uncountable, plural minimum wages)

1. The lowest rate at which an employer can legally pay an employee; usually expressed as pay per hour.
   • March 15 2012, Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]

     Perhaps their most austere film, 1999’s Palme D’Or-winning Rosetta, tracks the feisty eponymous 17-year-old from a trailer park, where she lives with her alcoholic mother, to a food truck in the industrial wasteland of Seraing, Belgium. She makes less than the minimum wage, if she’s lucky enough to work at all.

Translations

lowest rate of pay that an employer can legally pay

• Armenian: նվազագույն աշխատավարձ (hy) (nvazaguyn ašxatavarj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最低工資／最低工资 (zuìdī gōngzī), 最低工资 (zuìdī gōngzī)

• Czech: minimální mzda f
• Danish: mindsteløn c
• Finnish: minimipalkka (fi), vähimmäispalkka (fi)
• French: salaire minimum m
• German: Mindestlohn (de) m
• Gujarati: લઘુતમ વેતન (laghutam vetan)
• Hungarian: minimálbér (hu)
• Irish: íosphá m, pá íosta m
• Italian: salario minimo m
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• Japanese: 最低賃金 (さいていちんぎん, saitei chingin)
• Macedonian: минима́лна плата f (minimálna plata)
• Marathi: किमान वेतन (kimān vetan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: minstelønn (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: minstelønn f, minsteløn f

• Polish: płaca minimalna f
• Portuguese: salário mínimo (pt) m
• Russian: минима́льная зарпла́та f (minimálʹnaja zarpláta)
• Swedish: minimilön c
• Tagalog: kubdulang sahod
• Thai: ค่าจ้างขั้นต่ำ (kâa-jâang-kân-dtàm)