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Example sentences for "piece work"

  • Illustrate and explain a form for a piece work record, suitable for a business of your selection.

  • Daily Record of Piece Work] A form for a record of operations in an underwear mill is shown in Fig.

  • It has already been stated, that to obtain the exact cost per unit of production, time records must be kept on piece work.

  • Applying this fact to piece work, one sees at once how serious differences may arise.

  • Those who have worked at it for some time become very expeditious, and do piece work.

  • It is piece work, and requires but three or four weeks to learn.

  • It is piece work, and does not require long to learn.

  • Selling on commission is a form of piece work.

  • For this reason and because of the undue strain upon the worker that often occurs, piece work is in many trades not favored by the workers.

  • Laying-on of Gold-leaf and Blockers (piece work) yields 18s.

  • Put on piece work almost at once and receive what they make.

  • They are put on piece work as soon as they are fit for it; they are taken on about fourteen without premium, and their wages begin at 4s.

  • They begin by a few shillings pocket-money and go on to receive a part of what they make at piece work rates.

  • All of the work done in this factory was subjected to an accurate time study, and then was changed from day to piece work, through the assistance of functional foreman ship, etc.

  • Their shops had been run for many years under a good superintendent and with excellent foremen and workmen, on piece work.

  • Seldom, if ever, was an individual task set for a worker on day work, or piece work, and even if one were set, it was not scientifically determined.

  • Piece Work is the opposite of time work, in that under it the man is paid not for the time he spends at the work, but for the amount of work which he accomplishes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piece work" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but whether; central bank; even according; five knots; grow dark; happy memory; harsh voice; having obtained; hour since; machine guns; mortal terror; nine times; not from; often found; piece called; piece work; popular referendum; pure water; religious nature; revealed from; spring back; troops under; would remember