Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Less than minimal.
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Examples
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Gleason was, the author says, "subminimal" as a standup, the kind of comic who stepped on his own laugh by saying, "That was a gag."
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If this was subminimal, she didn'f want to meet a maximum one!
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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If this was subminimal, she didn'f want to meet a maximum one!
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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One reason that employers in the United States are willing to risk employer sanctions right now and hire illegal immigrants is because they can get those illegal immigrants at less than the minimum wage, put them in squalid working conditions, subject them to subminimal working conditions and they know that those illegal immigrants are unlikely to complain.
Reno Reich And Others Briefing On Illegal Immigration ITY National Archives 1995
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And therefore, part of our strategy is focusing not only on those areas, but also those industries that are likely to have those kinds of problems where there is likely to be exploitation of illegal immigrants, there's likely to be a magnet for employers to pull illegal immigrants from Mexico and subject them to subminimal working conditions, subminimal wages and so forth.
Reno Reich And Others Briefing On Illegal Immigration ITY National Archives 1995
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