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unˈwaged, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
a. Not recompensed with wages; unpaid.
b. Not receiving a wage, out of work. Also absol.
1538Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 397 His highness should..remember them with some piece of some broken abbey..; for, as I hear, the vicars and other ministers sing and say unwaged. c1550Dice Play (Percy Soc.) 11 With less relief of victuals than had the worst unwaged adventurer here. 1563Mirr. Mag. M iij, Now all stormy gales Of..rancor vtterly are swaged, And we our owne to lyve or dye vnwaged. 1971Dalla Costa & James in Power of Women (1975) 33 (heading) The productivity of wage slavery based on unwaged slavery. 1981Evening Mail (Birmingham) 30 Apr. 22/2 (Advt.), Women's Theatre Group presents their new play on Nuclear Power, Breaking Through, at Small Heath Community School... {pstlg}1·50 waged, {pstlg}1 unwaged. 1982Libr. Assoc. Rec. (Vacancies Suppl.) 30 Nov. p. cxlviii, The cost will be {pstlg}2 per line for waged persons or {pstlg}1 per line for those who are unwaged. 1982Guardian 24 Feb. 10/4 They're supposed to do unwaged work for their whole lives. |