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piecework
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
piecework
noun
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▪ At work next day, discussing time-sheets and piecework rates with Dagmar, she could feel her skin irritating her.
▪ Knowing that I could only earn his love on piecework, I constantly sought ways to prove myself useful to him.
▪ The experience of peasant families was repeated by sending daughters into similar social situations in domestic service and piecework.
▪ The women were on straight piecework, the men on more complex systems of payment.
▪ These rates were an average of their piecework earnings in the three weeks previous to the job change.
▪ This is piecework and it pays next to nothing.
▪ Under piecework, cost per pound dropped from two-and-a-quarter cents to one-and-a-quarter cents.
▪ You're a semi-skilled mechanic, just like the municipal rat-catcher, on piecework.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piecework

Piecework \Piece"work`\, 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.

The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre.
--R. Jefferies.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
piecework

also piece-work, 1540s, from piece (n.) + work (n.).

Wiktionary
piecework

n. (alternative spelling of piece work English)

WordNet
piecework

n. work paid for according to the quantity produced

Usage examples of "piecework".

A socialist in her chat group had told Martha that the consortium exploited her, just like the old days when sweatshops used to cheat the women who sewed piecework at home.

And I know brickmakers go about working at piecework in different places.

Sometimes he'd escalate and de-escalate his dosages and get David to do commercial art piecework, just so he could keep the money.

Locals and Indians off the reservation shot and skinned the reptiles and sold them to the factory piecework.