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wage
[ weyj ]
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.
Synonyms: remuneration, compensation, emolument, earnings
- 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.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- Obsolete. to contend; struggle.
wage
/ weɪdʒ /
noun
- often plural payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis Compare salary
- ( as modifier )
wage freeze
- plural economics the portion of the national income accruing to labour as earned income, as contrasted with the unearned income accruing to capital in the form of rent, interest, and dividends
- often plural recompense, return, or yield
- an obsolete word for pledge
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Derived Forms
- ˈwagelessness, noun
- ˈwageless, adjective
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Other Words From
- wageless adjective
- wageless·ness noun
- under·wage noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wage1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wage1
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Example Sentences
He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
The Supreme Court just handed a big holiday present to low-wage workers across America in the form of a giant f*ck you.
Who will want to enter this profession for a poverty wage and little or no paid time off?
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
They wage war as a tribe on account of wrongs done to a private individual.
The minimum wage law ought to form, in one fashion or another, a part of the code of every community.
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