wage slave
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Noun
[edit]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.
Synonyms
[edit]- slave to the wage
- (4chan, Internet slang) wagecuck, wagie
Related terms
[edit]- wage-slave (verbal form)
- wage slavery
- slave wage
Translations
[edit]one who works for wages
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