low pay
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflowandpay
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low
adjective
uk/ləʊ/us/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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pay
noun[U]
uk/peɪ/us/peɪ/
the money you receive for doing ...
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(Definition oflowandpayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Over the same period, the incidence oflowpaygrew, as did the extent of the overlap betweenlowpayand poverty.
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Lowpayislowpaywherever one lives.
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Much self-employment and female employment is characterised bylowpayand periodic spells of unemployment.
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Those are the problems—notlowpay, becauselowpaydoes not always equal poverty.
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Moreover, prejudice was rampant within the civil service, manifesting itself inlowpayand generally poor treatment.
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Lowpayand poor provisioning encouraged the bulk of the lower ranks to terrorise and rob local people.
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Lowpayundermines people's health.
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Another aspect islowpay.
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The problem is particularly serious if one introduces the notion of absolutelowpay, as opposed to relativelowpay.
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The motion's failing is that it treatslowpayin isolation, whenlowpayand unemployment are interrelated.
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Althoughlowpayitself may not be part of the social chapter, low standards are inevitable companions oflowpay.
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Also, will the experience of personal assistants working 'powerlessly', on relativelylowpayand often in isolation, be detrimental to the welfare of their employers?
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Protests aboutlowpayincrease the appearance and reality of chaos and reduce public and health sector support for the reform.
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In her eagerness to promote part-time working, she downplays the significant downsides, such aslowpayand reduced access to training.
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Needless to say this situation is exacerbated by insufficient funding, lack of resources and training, poor working conditions andlowpay.
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This was certainly not because unemployment benefits were at all generous but rather because many in work were on short-time, resulting in verylowpay.
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He said little aboutlowpay.
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Lowpayis an important subject.
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What has changed withlowpay?
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It reflectslowpayin the area.
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They believe ideologically inlowpay.
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