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wage slave

noun

Definition of wage slave

: a person dependent on wages or a salary for a livelihood

Examples of wage slave in a Sentence

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 Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves. — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, "‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery," 11 June 2019

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First Known Use of wage slave

1882, in the meaning defined above

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