SLIDING SCALE


Meaning of SLIDING SCALE in English

noun

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Its correlative, a sliding scale of hours to meet unemployment, is now becoming timely.

So it was that the trade emulated this sliding scale system for the populace at large.

The disparity between solar noon and mean noon widens and narrows as the seasons change, on a sliding scale .

The fee is on a sliding scale according to value, and nobody who appraises for us is paid for it.

The rest of the kitty will be divided among the other 21 clubs on a sliding scale in units of £35,000.

The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.

What was the going rate, his professional self asked, and was it adjusted to a sliding scale ?

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