minimum wage

1. 1.

   the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law

   Broaderwage

Questions about minimum wage

What does minimum wage mean?

minimum wage means "the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law".

Is minimum wage a common word?

minimum wage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.