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

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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  

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 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.

Matched Categories

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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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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. Ronil Hira:

   There could not be a clearer case of the H-1B program being used to harm American workers' wages and working conditions.

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. Eldon Renaud:

   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.

4. Mark Zandi:

   The excess saving has been enough to cushion the impact of declining real wages on spending, even for lower-income households, american households are for the most part in a good financial place.

5. Chris Ngige:

   I invoked laws of the federation on withdrawal of wages during period of strike, which in common parlance is called the principle of No-Work-No-Pay.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

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
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wages