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Coupon. In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be redeemed for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product. Customarily, coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer packaged goods [1] or by retailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions. They are often widely distributed through mail ...
The Oxford American English Dictionary defines spinster as "an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage". It adds: "In modern everyday English, however, spinster cannot be used to mean simply 'unmarried woman'; as such, it is a derogatory term, referring or alluding to a stereotype of an older woman who is unmarried, childless, prissy, and repressed."
Old cow: A rude term for an older woman, especially one who is overweight or obese and homely. Old fart: [7] A boring and old-fashioned silly person. Old maid: An older never married lady. (see "spinster" below) Olderly: Newfoundland slang term for "elderly"; can be offensive or neutral depending on the context.
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary -based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. [1][2] Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most common definitions of "working class" in use in the United States limit its membership to ...
List of Generation Z slang. Appearance. "If You Know You Know" redirects here. For the Pusha T song, see If You Know You Know (song). The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world.
Social class. A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, [1] the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class. Membership of a social class can for example be dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a particular subculture or social ...
Activists demonstrate for Equal Pay Day in Frankfurt. The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working. Women are generally found to be paid less than men. There are two distinct numbers regarding the pay gap: non-adjusted versus adjusted pay gap.
The rate for White women was closer to White males, at 4.5% and 3.5%, respectively. Only Asian women had a lower rate of working poverty than Asian males, at 2.5% and 3.2%, respectively. Transgender persons are more likely than cisgender men or women to be classified as working poor. In the United States, transgender people are three times more ...