English

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Etymology

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From wage +‎ taker.

Noun

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wagetaker (plural wagetakers)

  1. A firm that has no choice over its wages and must accept those of the general market.
    • 2003, Michael Woodford, Interest and Prices, →ISBN, page 148:
      Here I assume that the producer is a wagetaker, even though I have supposed that the supplier of each differentiated good uses a different type of labor with its own market.