Definition of Wages in English :
Define Wages in English
Wages meaning in English
Meaning of Wages in English
Pronunciation of Wages in English
Wages pronunciation in English
Pronounce Wages in English
Wages
see synonyms of wagesNoun
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
Example Sentences:'the wages of sin is death''virtue is its own reward'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Wages
see synonyms of wagesplural noun
1.
payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis
His wages have gone up.
He collected his wages.
He lost a day's wages for his behaviour.
2. economics
the portion of the national income accruing to labour as earned income, as contrasted with the unearned income accruing to capital in the form of rent, interest, and dividends
3. literary
recompense, return, or yield
the wages of fear/sin
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Wages
see synonyms of wagesn.
1. A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
2. wages The price of labor in an economy.
3. often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense: the wages of sin.
tr.v. waged, wag·ing, wag·es
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.