wage slave
noun informal
A person who is wholly dependent on income from employment, typically employment of an arduous or menial nature.Why work as a wage slave when the promise of big payoff from being on TV is only an audition away?...
- Years ago I was working as a wage slave, collecting carts for my local grocery store.
- I'd said it before, during my time as a B&N wage slave, and it had never come back to haunt me.
Derivatives
wage slavery
- Is high school just a place to be brainwashed and prepared for a lifetime of wage slavery?
- But it does condone wage slavery, another scourge upon working people.
- Global ‘free trade’ means social security for them if they are lucky, grinding wage slavery if they are not.