decent salary

collocation in English

meaningsofdecentandsalary

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decent
adjective
uk
/ˈdiː.sənt/us
/ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
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salary
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈsæl.ər.i/us
/ˈsæl.ɚ.i/
a fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account ...
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(Definition ofdecentandsalaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are the seventeenth richest country in the world, yet we dare not pay ourselves adecentsalary.
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The salary of any decent official must be adecentsalary, otherwise we shall not get good officials.
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He targeted small sums to try to buy people back when they really need adecentsalaryincrease.
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They want adecentsalarythat will be sufficient to recruit, retain and motivate teachers.
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We now believe that our troops will receive adecentsalaryby 1980.
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On that basis, the policemen would never be given adecentsalaryincrease.
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Let us give the teachers dignity and adecentsalaryto begin with.
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They need adecentsalary, and there is no reason why they should be ashamed about it.
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As regards teaching, it is important that we pay those who are qualified adecentsalary.
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They deserve adecentsalaryand should be seen to be paid adecentsalary.
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They are calling for adecentsalarywhich offsets the risks involved in their job.
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Immediately after he is elected, they hold him shoulder-high, although afterwards they object to giving him adecentsalary.
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How will the one-man unit compete with the great companies and give its solitary employee adecentsalary, decent hours and other conditions?
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Because corruption was cleared out of the civil service; civil servants were paid adecentsalary, and were recruited through competitive examinations.
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You do not secure an ordinary business man if you do not pay him adecentsalary, according to the market.
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Our youth service leaders should have better career prospects and adecentsalarystructure.
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That is why we should guarantee adecentsalarywith security.
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That system was introduced because the doctors were not getting adecentsalary.
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We want them to be paid adecentsalary, but we must look at the whole problem and not just at specific parts of it.
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They have to pay a well-equipped man adecentsalaryin order to carry out the very difficult task of marketing these products for the group that is in co-operation.
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