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SLIDING SCALE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("sliding scale" is a kind of...):
wage scale; wage schedule (a schedule of wages paid for different jobs)