Wages

[Wa·ges]

A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

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

Noun
a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"


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


Wages

Wa"ges , n. plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See Wage, n.] A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
The wages of sin is death.
Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account. Encyc. Brit. Syn. -- See under Wage, n.

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

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Usage Examples

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

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.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

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Other Usage Examples

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

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