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low-paid

Adjective

Meaning

low-paid (comparative lower-paid, superlative lowest-paid)

Of a worker: earning poor pay, less than the average wage.
Antonym: high-paid

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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low paid

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Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. Theresa May

As a result, there are now approximately 5000 low-paid workers — the majority being migrants and undocumented workers — who have contracted COVID-19 in abattoirs there. Source: Internet

As a 'Band Two' administrator for the NHS, the maximum Mrs Nightingale can earn is £19,300 – well under the £24,000 threshold for low-paid public sector workers who will receive a pay rise under plans announced by the Chancellor. Source: Internet

In fact, Fern doesn’t seem to mind the low-paid, backbreaking jobs she takes on—not even cleaning bathrooms at an RV park. Source: Internet

Imagine a world, Siddiqi says, where low-paid service sector jobs were assigned randomly, and wealthy people were just as likely as anyone to do those infection-risky jobs. Source: Internet

In 2006, while running its UK operations, he asked the Oxford English Dictionary to change its definition of the phrase McJob from “an unstimulating, low-paid job”. Source: Internet

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