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Meanings of piece rates in English

Russian
сдельная заработная плата
Catalan
treball a preu fet
Spanish
trabajo a destajo

Employment system where the worker is paid according to the number of units produced.

сдельная заработная плата
Usage of piece rates in English
1
The whole family sewed buttons on cards at night at slave labor piece rates.
The Godfather
2
Three fourths of these workers are paid piece rates.
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business / A Contribution to the ...
3
After a winter of forcing skeletons to work for piece rates, the destitute are now to be given soup.
The Irish Times
4
They said that on former piece rates this man used to make from ninety dollars to one hundred dollars a week.
Working With the Working Woman
5
More than 2,040 barristers who carry out prosecution work in England and Wales responded, virtually all of those working on piece rates for the CPS.
The Guardian
6
Wages, fair, 82, 153,~ cOrAmiFsions, 143; piece rates for, i5o; maximum, 152; sums paid in, 153; value, 241; little or no, Wanamaker, John, 271.
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business / A Contribution to the ...