Meaning Of The Word Sliding scale

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Sliding scale Meaning

Sliding scale Definition
Sliding scale Definition

What's The Definition Of Sliding scale?

sliding scale
Payments such as wages or taxes that are calculated on a sliding scale are higher or lower depending on various different factors.

sliding scale in American English
a standard or schedule, as of costs, wages, fees, tariff rates, etc., that varies in accordance with given conditions or standards, as cost of living, level of income, etc.
noun: a variable scale, esp. of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand

sliding scale in British English
noun: a variable scale according to which specified wages, tariffs, prices, etc, fluctuate in response to changes in some other factor, standard, or conditions

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