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Definition: Wage Increase |
Wage IncreaseNoun1. The amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Wage IncreaseSynonyms: hike (n), raise (n), rise (n), salary increase (n), wage hike (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wage Increase |
| English words defined with "wage increase": raising. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Plantation workers received a substantial wage increase in June 2000 when the agreement came for renewal. (references) |
Netherlands | The biggest threat to sustained growth is the possibility that the average contract wage increase may exceed the government's three percent target. (references) | |
Egypt | One quarter of the budget, or LE 31.8 billion, will go to paying the public sector wage bill, including a 10% wage increase for government employees. (references) | |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | The act also forbids any employer from granting a general wage increase to its workers without prior government approval. (references) |
HONDURAS | In October 2000, the private sector and two of Honduras' three national labor confederations negotiated a general monthly wage increase of $23 (350 lempiras) for workers earning up to $400 (6000 lempiras) per month. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Angola | CGSILA continued to demand a minimum wage increase and better working conditions during the year. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I have studied the arguments and evidence for and against a minimum wage increase. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
minimum wage increase | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wage increase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | rritje rroge. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | palkankorotus (pay rise, salary increase). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | hausse de salaires, augmentation de salaires. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Lohnerhöhung (increment, pay award, pay rise, raise, wage rise). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 賃上' . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ち"あ'. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ageway increaseay рост заработной платы. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-g-i-n-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: canewares, carageens, regencies. | |
-4 letters: acarines, acreages, agencies, agenesia, anergias, anergies, angaries, arginase, canaries, caneware, carageen, carnages, cesarean, cesarian, creasing, energies, energise, gearcase, generics, gesneria, greenies, increase, resawing, reseeing, resewing, sangaree, screwing, sewerage, sewering, swearing, weensier, wiseacre. | |
-5 letters: acarine, acrasin, acreage, agarics, anergia, anergic, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, careens, carinae, carinas, carnage, carnies, caserne, ceasing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 67 65 49 6E 63 72 65 61 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101110 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a g e   I n c r e a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0067 0065 0049 006E 0063 0072 0065 0061 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5767737124380698471678571 |
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