wage slave

English

Noun

wage slave (plural wage slaves)

  1. Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
    • 1997 August 4, Daniel Kadlec, “The Tax Bill: Money In Motion”, in CNN‎[1]:
      The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just don't have the cash.
    • 2012 June 14, Scott Tobias, “Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time”, in The A.V. Club:
      Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck.
  2. (informal) Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.

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