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wage slave en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
   • Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck. 2012 June 14, Scott Tobias, “Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time”, in The A.V. Club:
   • The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just don't have the cash. 1997 August 4, Daniel Kadlec, “The Tax Bill: Money In Motion”, in CNN:
2. (informal) Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.

Forms

Relateds

wage slavery · wage-slave · slave wage

Synonyms

wagecuck · slave to the wage · wagie

Translations (15)

sv löneslav (one who works for wages) · fr esclave salarié (one who works for wages) · ja 社畜 (one who works for wages) · pt escravo assalariado (one who works for wages) · de Lohnsklave (one who works for wages) · pl niewolnik płacy (one who works for wages) · hu bérrabszolga (one who works for wages) · nl loonslaaf (one who works for wages) · cmn 社畜 (one who works for wages) · fi palkkaorja (one who works for wages) · id budak korporat (one who works for wages) · el μισθωτός σκλάβος (one who works for wages) · eo salajrosklavo (one who works for wages) · pt escravo do salário (one who works for wages) · de Berufsmensch (one who works for wages)