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Sliding scale   /slˈaɪdɪŋ skeɪl/   Listen
Sliding scale

noun
1.
A wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index.





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"Sliding scale" Quotes from Famous Books



... regarding these people, to whom we owe an immeasurable responsibility, is to see the best that is in them prevail. Discord over this seems on the wane, and sane views gaining. The issue sits on all our shoulders, but local variations call for a sliding scale of policy. So admirably dispassionate a novel as The Elder Brother, by Mr. Jervey, forwards the understanding of Northerners unfamiliar with the South, and also that friendliness between the two places, which is retarded chiefly ...
— Lady Baltimore • Owen Wister


Words linked to "Sliding scale" :   wage scale, wage schedule


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