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low-paid

adjective
If you describe someone or their job as low-paid, you mean that their work earns them very little money.
...low-paid workers.
The majority of working women are in low-paid jobs.
The low-paid are people who are low-paid.

low-paid in British English

(ˌləʊˈpeɪd)
adjective
1. 
earning very little money
low-paid workers
2. 
supplying very little money
low-paid jobs

Examples of 'low-paid' in a sentence
low-paid

Those who worked mainly had low-paid jobs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
That would take a lot of burden off employers of low-paid staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
More needs to be done now to help the low-paid workers who keep this country going.
The Sun (2014)
Millions of low-paid people have been lifted out of income tax.
The Sun (2015)
They have had to take really low-paid work and many have struggled.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Millions of low-paid workers are now exempt from income tax too.
The Sun (2014)
Then the taxpayer will not have to give handouts to the low-paid via working tax credits.
The Sun (2014)
But is it fair for a low-paid worker to be subsidising a banker?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Their willingness to take low-paid work forces wages down too.
The Sun (2016)
It protects not unskilled workers but an effete political class who feel queasy at the thought of low-paid work.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Too many low-paid people pay tax.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Republicans fear that such an increase will cause employers to lay off or reduce the hours of low-paid workers who can least afford it.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It will be paid to those out of work and in low-paid jobs and is intended to weaken the financial incentive not to work.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
TWO million low-paid workers will be penalised for grafting harder under government welfare reforms.
The Sun (2012)
Too many jobs remain low-paid.
The Sun (2015)
My husband works in a low-paid factory job but it's secure.
The Sun (2014)
Also, any students from poor families who end up in low-paid jobs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yes, and put millions of low-paid agricultural workers across the world out of work.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Surely paying tax credits to low-paid workers means that it is doing Just that?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I have a boring low-paid job.
The Sun (2006)
For people on low-paid jobs, wages are forced down further while some are forced outof work altogether.
The Sun (2015)
Her daughter and son-in-law have low-paid jobs and struggle to pay a mortgage on a house that has probably declined in value.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

In other languages
low-paid

British English: low-paid ADJECTIVE
If you describe someone or their job as low-paid, you mean that their work earns them very little money.
...low-paid workers.
  • American English: low-paid
  • Brazilian Portuguese: de baixa renda
  • Chinese: 低薪的
  • European Spanish: mal pagado
  • French: mal payé
  • German: schlecht bezahlt
  • Italian: malpagato
  • Japanese: 低賃金の
  • Korean: 저임금의
  • European Portuguese: de baixa renda
  • Latin American Spanish: mal pagado

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