wagetaker

noun

Etymology

From wage + taker.

  1. inherited from takere
  2. formed as wagetaker — “wage + taker

Definitions

  1. A firm that has no choice over its wages and must accept those of the general market.

    • Here I assume that the producer is a wagetaker, even though I have supposed that the supplier of each differentiated good uses a different type of labor with its own market.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wagetaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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