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wages
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Princeton's WordNet
wages, reward, payoffnoun
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
"the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
Wiktionary
wagesnoun
one's total income for a time period
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wagesnoun
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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 Dictionary
Wagesnoun
a compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2
Editors Contribution
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
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 Records
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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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wages' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2979
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wages' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1513
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wages in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wages in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of wages in a Sentence
If you just go after those companies that are paying the lowest wages, you're not going to benefit in the long run because they can always find cheaper wages somewhere.
More plentiful jobs and rising wages are drawing more people into the work force, business-sector productivity growth, which had been disappointing during the expansion, moved up. ... Rising productivity allows wages to increase without adding to inflation pressures.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a employee. Profits make you a fortune
At a time when the middle class is shrinking, poverty is increasing and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages it makes no sense to me to have an immigration bill which, over a period of years, would bring millions of 'guest workers' into this country who are prepared to work for lower wages than American workers, we need to increase wages in this country, not lower them.
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