Definitions for Wages
wages

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wages, reward, payoffnoun

   a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

   "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wagesnoun

   one's total income for a time period

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wagesnoun

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1. wages

   Wages refer to the fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to manual or unskilled workers. It is the compensation given for the services rendered as determined by an agreement between the employer and the employee. Wages are usually based on an hourly rate or a piece-rate system.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Wagesnoun

   a compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2

Editors ContributionRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. wages

   A specific amount of money given to an employee for the completion of their work.

   Our wages are paid into our bank account on a specific date each month.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on November 14, 2020  

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   wages

   Plural form of the word wage.

   The social enterprise employees all have identical wages paid monthly for their employment.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on November 14, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WAGES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wages is ranked #7915 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wages surname appeared 4,180 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Wages.
   
   88.3% or 3,692 total occurrences were White.
   6.1% or 257 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 96 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 77 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 36 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 22 total occurrences were Asian.

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1. • Consequence

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Wages' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2979

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Wages' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1513

Anagrams for Wages »

1. swage

How to pronounce Wages?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Wages in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Wages in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Wages in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Wages in a Sentence

1. Don Boyd:

   Almost any economist will tell you that we should treat all income equally, if you have $50,000 of income, it doesn't matter if it is from a pension, dividends or wages - tax law generally doesn't make too many distinctions.

2. James Reschovsky:

   The higher prices in hospital outpatient departments are passed on to employers in the form of higher premiums, and ultimately to workers in the form of less generous health benefits, higher premium cost sharing, or lower wages, certainly patients with co-insurance would pay more out-of-pocket when the price of service is higher.

3. South Korea Unification Ministry:

   The wages for the North's workers and other fees were paid in cash in U.S. dollars to the North's authorities and not to the workers, this is believed to be channeled in the same way as other foreign currency it earned.

4. Daren Blomquist:

   Those markets with the biggest disconnect between price growth and wage growth during the last two years are most likely to see plateauing home prices in 2015 until wages catch up.

5. Lori Wallach:

   Why would the President honor a firm that has grown and profited not by creating American jobs, but by producing in offshore sweatshops with rock-bottom wages and terrible labor conditions?

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Wages
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wages
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Wages
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Wages
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html