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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wages, reward, payoffnoun

    a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

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

Wiktionary

  1. wagesnoun

    one's total income for a time period

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wagesnoun

ChatGPT

  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 Dictionary

  1. Wagesnoun

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

Editors Contribution

  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  


  2. 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

  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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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

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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. Philippe Pulles:

    In terms of hourly wages, I'm on par with what people are earning in the Third World.

  2. San Francisco:

    In response, businesses hold back wage increases and wait for inflation and productivity growth to bring wages closer to their desired level. Since it takes some time to fully exhaust the pool of wage cuts, wage growth remains low even as the economy expands and the unemployment rate declines.

  3. Jim Diffley:

    As an economist watching the economy, we're somewhat surprised that wages pressures have been so muted to this point, we do expect an acceleration and in fact think it necessary to continue the recovery.

  4. Michael Bivona:

    Having retired from the accounting profession and the computer enhancement industry, [I know] there is a shortage of qualified people to perform bookkeeping-computer work and that the wages and flexible time schedules can be very attractive for part-timers.In many instances the work can be performed at home for those who have computers and prefer being in a quiet environment.

  5. Michael Lind:

    If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.

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