wage freeze

1. We were disgusted when bosses awarded themselves a massive pay rise. How can they get on the gravy train, but ask us to take a wage freeze?
   看到老板为自己大幅加薪，我们感到十分气愤。他们凭什么轻轻松松捞油水却要求我们不涨工资？
2. With high interest rates and a wage freeze, many householders are only just managing to keep their heads above water.
   由于实行高利率和工资冻结措施，许多户主只能是使自己免于负债。
3. The bank instituted a wage freeze.
   银行实行了工资冻结。
4. A large increase in the minimum wage in the UK would immediately freeze our hiring plans and cast doubt on future investments.
   如果英国大幅提高最低工资，我们的招聘计划将立即冻结，未来的投资也会蒙上疑云。
5. The Government imposed a wage and price freeze, and granted tax concessions to business. ( 2008 The New York Times)
   政府强制实行工资与物价冻结，并对企业给予税收减免优惠。
6. In that situation, a wage freeze, whether voluntary or imposed by the government, deals with a symptom of inflation rather than with inflation itself.
   在那种情况下，工资冻结，无论是自动还是国家强制进行的，是对付通货膨胀的症状，而不是通货膨胀本身。
7. Wage freeze ( legal ban on or control of increases in wages)
   工资冻结（合法禁止或控制工资的增长）。
8. The Newcastle coal miners laid in all the collieries in protest of the wage freeze.
   纽卡斯尔的煤矿工人使所有的煤矿停产，以抗议工资冻结。
9. The wage freeze squashed his hope of a raise.
   工资冻结使他加薪的希望破灭了。

noun

1. a freeze of wages at a given level