male worker

collocation in English

meaningsofmaleandworker

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male
adjective
uk
/meɪl/
us
/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kər/
us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofmaleandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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According to him, the balance wages of amaleworkercould amount to anything between 21 and 46 r. per year in economically good times.
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Social policies - unregulated working time, inflexible male-style working life patterns, maternity leave, benefits systems based on amaleworkermodel of employment - have often supported these differences.
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This is the great difference between the woman worker and themaleworker.
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He is a married man, and has three full-time workers and one casualmaleworker.
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In 1979 less than onemaleworkerin 10 was low paid.
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A standard man-day represents 8 hours manual work for an adultmaleworkerunder average conditions.
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He said that the average earnings of amaleworkerare £12 a week.
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The present basic rate for an adultmaleworkerin agriculture is the disgracefully low figure of £16·20 for a 42-hour week.
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It would be a great incentive to those women to know that they should not be receiving any rate lower than that of any low-paidmaleworkerin the industry.
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So, after six years of service as a speech therapist one gets £9 a week less than the manualmaleworkerin manufacturing industry.
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The margin between themaleworkerand the woman worker is wider than in almost any other industry.
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At this time the average earnings of an adultmaleworkerwere about £3 a week and there were 1,500,000 people who had no wages at all.
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He does not mind so much for himself—themaleworkerin industry: it is his wife who minds.
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If there were no unemployment benefit, the earnings of one adultmaleworkerwould have to provide for about 20 individuals.
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Imagine a pension for a single person of less than one-fifth of the average earnings of the adultmaleworkerin the country today.
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When employment falls below the level that one wants to see in any area, it is the oldermaleworkerwho tends to be affected.
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To listen to him, one would think that every tenant of a local authority house was an average industrialmaleworkerearning £15 a week.
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This study is based on data from 609 currently married male workers.
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Also, real wages, for most male workers, actually fell during this period.
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