Crossword-Solution: PIECEWORK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Piecework | n. | Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PIECEWORK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Method of operation in some factories. | 1 answer |
| One way to earn. | 1 answer |
| work paid for according to the quantity produced | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TLOCREE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with PIECEWORK (5)
Our difficulties and our ideals are all piecemeal affairs, but the Absolute can do no piecework for us; so that all the interests which our poor souls compass raise their heads too late.
The introduction of machinery into the manufacture of automobile tires caused a reduction in the piecework rate in certain shops.
With his son, he was supposed to be “in business” on his own account, but as most of their work was done for “the trade”, that is, for such firms as Rushton & Co., they would be more correctly described as men who did piecework at home.
For the first time since he was on piecework, Jonah set out for the shop on Monday morning; but when he walked in, Paasch met him with a look of surprise, thinking he had mistaken the day of the week.
They ran a kind of literary clearing-house, and gave piecework to everybody who could write and had two ideas to jingle against each other.
Quotes with PIECEWORK (1)
The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda — the advertising industry.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–1968).