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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Fair wages and dignified conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: government, politics
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" inspired the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim, which was published in 1911.
