Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-paid
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a low-paid worker
▪ As part-time, low-paid workers, many women earned very little.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
job
▪ Most low-paid jobs are part-time or temporary.
▪ Most women are forced through economic necessity to work in part-time low-paid jobs with quite a large number in the black economy.
▪ Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension.
▪ Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives; they may have had low-paid jobs.
▪ Many of those working in the formal care sector are women in low-paid jobs.
▪ Questions were asked: Why do most women work in unskilled, low-paid jobs?
worker
▪ That would take more low-paid workers out of the tax net and encourage more part-time work.
▪ But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.
▪ Moreover, this welfare-only approach ignores the opinions of low-paid workers themselves.
▪ The wages for many teenage and low-paid workers rose correspondingly.
▪ It will be hard on nurses, teachers and low-paid workers but at least their jobs are not at risk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ low-paid workers
▪ a low-paid mechanic
▪ The jobs centre seems to list only low-paid temporary jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.
▪ But the company did not want the hassle - or embarrassment - of dealing direct with its own low-paid work force.
▪ Moreover, this welfare-only approach ignores the opinions of low-paid workers themselves.
▪ Most low-paid jobs are part-time or temporary.
▪ Rate for the job Brighter prospects for low-paid women workers.
▪ Sorting rubbish is still done largely by hand, often by low-paid or immigrant labour, and is filthy and dangerous work.
▪ They depend on larger companies for a market niche, and often provide low-paid and insecure jobs.
▪ Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension.
Usage examples of "low-paid".
There, the old age homes and the like had never become dependent on low-paid slave labor.
His subsequent career in politics had been marked by the highest aspirations and the least effectuality, some said, since Asquith, and he had piloted through Parliament a series of bills whose aim, to assist the low-paid in one way or another, had resulted in that middle-class subsidy known as the development grant.