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wages

noun

Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.

Usually, wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).

Usually, wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return: The wages of sin is death.

Obsolete. a pledge or security.

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verb (used with object)

to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation.

Chiefly British Dialect. to hire.

Obsolete.

to stake or wager.

to pledge.

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verb (used without object)

Obsolete. to contend; struggle.

Origin:
1275–1325; (noun) Middle English: pledge, security < Anglo-French; Old French guage gage¹ < Vulgar Latin *wadium < Germanic (see wed); (v.) Middle English wagen to pledge < Anglo-French wagier; Old French guagier < Vulgar Latin *wadiāre, derivative of *wadium

Related forms

wage·less, adjective

wage·less·ness, noun

un·der·wage, noun

Can be confused: salary, wages.

Synonyms
1. earnings, emolument, compensation, remuneration. See pay¹. 5. undertake, prosecute.

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Example Sentences

Wages have held up far better than employment during this recession.

There is no real enforcement about paying prevailing wages.

Retail sales, producer prices, wages and exchange rates.

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Wages have held up far better than employment during this recession.

There is no real enforcement about paying prevailing wages.

Retail sales, producer prices, wages and exchange rates.

They wire funds back to their families, and their employers avoid paying taxes on the wages.

Their hours are long, their wages low, and many have debts from their schooling amounting to tens of thousands of dollars.

Butler found them work, established camps and provided food, clothing and wages.

They are calling on software engineers to unite to protect jobs, wages and even the quality of their digital craft.

The only way a general cut in wages can increase employment is if it leads people to buy more across the board.

Now the next step is to negotiate a good contract and stop working for slave wages.

Its biggest imbalance is too little consumption, largely because wages have fallen as a share of national income.

By contrast, on merchant and naval vessels, there was astrict hierarchical ord er and pitifully low wages.

But in the long term, other costs would add up: the cost of borrowing money, higher wages and currency changes.

They said their wages were fair and that they have fantastic facilities.

There was a lot of talk earlier this year about companies that were cutting wages.

The wages are that low because the illegals are there to accept them.

When it does wages will rise, eroding the return on capital.

Ecuadorians, the islands are seen of a source of higher incomes, and many move to the archipelago to earn better wages.

When wages cannot support absurd prices, those prices ultimately must collapse.

And airlines around the world are poaching from one another and raising wages to attract new talent.

In many supermarkets, managers treat these baggers as volunteers, not paying them wages and making them rely on tips.

They create an undermarket of labor that drives wages down.

She embroiders little caps and weaves trays for her house and for sale, but she is too proud to work for wages as a maid.

Medical care no longer costs a small part of wages or earned income.

Everyone is subject to starvation wages for their work.

Coupled with depressed lecturer's wages and a car that wouldn't survive the commute, the writing was on the wall.

Letting wages rise at the expense of profits would allow workers to enjoy more of the fruits of their labour.

Million$ in taxes and wages help keep the stone-age economy humming.

IF you are unwilling to give up the safety that tenure brings, dont complain about the wages others taking that risk are earning.

If you are willing to infer a causal connection, the implication is that you're doomed to low wages without an education.

Those patterns continue in today's report: hourly wages accelerated in.

But wages from those jobs bought clear-cuts that reduced forests to stumps, destroying bear habitat and salmon spawning grounds.

Supply and demand in the workforce should set wages rather than inflate wages for the uneducated.

The tendency for wages to remain high during recessions.

Women in adjunct jobs have children at the same rate as men but receive the lowest wages in academe.

Proposed reasons include less interest in higher wages and more nurturing personalities.

Year by year, workers in cities see their wages grow faster than workers outside of cities because their skills grow faster.

She is paying them the wages of both straightness and whiteness and they are responding with enthusiastic support.

Education for all and jobs that pay livable wages can guarantee our future for generations to come.

In dispute in the negotiations were wages and health-care costs, among other issues.

But the more they lower wages and prices, the harder that burden is to bear.

Social security taxes are taxes on wages for employees, not fees for consultants or independent contractors.

Minimum wages really hurt young people trying to land their first job.

The losers are the unemployed and workers in non-unionised jobs who get lower wages and living standards.

Borrowers, meanwhile, face damaged credit histories and may have their wages and tax refunds seized by the government.

Another worry about offshoring, and globalisation more generally, is that it bears down on wages in developed economies.

He compares this to the labour glory days when wages were high and people earned enough to fund their desired consumption.

Some people point out tradesmen as an example of people who don't go to college and still earn good wages.

The goal should be for workers wages and benefits to rise to the level of these unionized employees.

Pay something othe rthan the bottom of the heap in wages.

If they look for higher wages to compensate for a drop in purchasing.

Dubin should be reinstated and recover any lost wages or benefits.

They will continue to depress wages and labor standards and deepen the ranks of the working poor.

We will suffer, after all, educators work for near poverty level wages.

One reason why wages are so small a part of total production costs is that the wages are so low.

Dutch academic wages are quite good, and they come with many extras.

These higher wages increase supply and reduce demand, with the result that there are more jobless people.

The global economic downturn kept wages down and increased workers' grievances.

It added its own review only after an audit found that some borrowers were earning wages again after receiving disability.

Then your leaders have even more difficult problem: politicians and civil servants' wages and their benefits.

Market clearing job matches at wages between zero and the legal minimum can't take place.

Bahrain hopes to build, storey by storey, a workforce that is worth the higher wages locals expect.

But wages are notoriously sticky and have a particularly tough time adjusting downward.

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Word Origin & History

wage

c.1320, "to pledge, deposit as a pledge," from O.N.Fr. wagier (O.Fr. gagier), from wage (see wage (n.)). Meaning "to carry on" (of war, etc.) is attested from 1456, probably from earlier sense of "to offer as a gage of battle" (c.1430).

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Cultural Dictionary

wages definition

Payment for services to a worker, usually remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Wages definition

Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgements threatened against the withholding of (Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5; comp. James 5:4); paid in money (Matt. 20:1-14); to Jacob in kind (Gen. 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7, 8, 41).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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