sliding scale

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Payments such as wages or taxes that are calculated on a sliding scale are higher or lower depending on various different factors. Many practitioners have a sliding scale of fees. a system for calculating how much you pay for taxes, medical treatment etc, in which the amount that you pay changes according to different conditions on a sliding scale
varying scale used to determine wages that takes various economic factors into consideration
a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index
sliding scale

    Hyphenation

    slid·ing scale

    Turkish pronunciation

    slaydîng skeyl

    Pronunciation

    /ˈslīdəɴɢ ˈskāl/ /ˈslaɪdɪŋ ˈskeɪl/
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