wage freeze

1. 1.

   a freeze of wages at a given level

   Broaderfreeze

Questions about wage freeze

What does wage freeze mean?

wage freeze means "a freeze of wages at a given level".

Is wage freeze a common word?

wage freeze 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.