Definitions for wages
wages

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. wagesnoun

   one's total income for a time period

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Wagesnoun

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

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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  

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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

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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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. Muhammad Ismail:

   Saudi Arabia say they don't want the Chinese vaccine, they want these other ones, otherwise they keep you in quarantine, and that costs around 5,000 riyal( about $ 1,333.23). My monthly wages are 1,800 riyal, so how can I afford that ?

2. Tom Davison:

   A reverse mortgage could help (the daughter) pay her the wages she has given up.

3. Tara Sinclair:

   Because we see that demand continuing to grow, we expect wages to increase as well.

4. Stephen Moore:

   I have a pretty populist agenda that I'm pursuing, which is more growth, higher wages, more transparency and more sunlight on how the Fed operates.

5. Paul Ryan:

   Believe it or not, we cut taxes at the beginning of the year, and we have higher revenues this year. Why do we have higher revenues ? Because we have faster economic growth, higher wages, more taxes are coming into the government.

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