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Definitions for Wages

[1] Often wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
[2] Usually wages. Economics . the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).
[3] Usually wages. (used with a singular or plural verb ) recompense or return: The wages of sin is death.
[4] Obsolete . a pledge or security.
[5] to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation.
[6] Chiefly British Dialect . to hire.
[7] Obsolete . to stake or wager. to pledge.
[8] Obsolete . to contend; struggle.
[9] (often plural) payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis Compare salary (as modifier ) wage freeze
[10] (plural) 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
[11] (often plural) recompense, return, or yield
[12] an obsolete word for pledge
[13] to engage in
[14] obsolete to pledge or wager
[15] archaic another word for hire (def. 1), hire (def. 2)

Words related to Wages

alary, hire, pay, compensation, earnings, income

Words nearby Wages

wagewaft, waftage, wafter, wafture, wag, wage, wage determination, wage differential, wage earner, wage incentive, wage scale

Origin of Wages

1275–1325; (noun) Middle English: pledge, security < Anglo-French; Old French guage gage1 < Vulgar Latin *wadium < Germanic (see wed); (v.) Middle English wagen to pledge < Anglo-French wagier; Old French guagier < Vulgar Latin *wadiāre, derivative of *wadium

Words that may be confused with Wages

alary, wages

Other words from Wages

wage·less , adjective
wage·less·ness , noun
un·der·wage , noun

Word origin for Wages

C14: from Old Northern French wagier to pledge, from wage, of Germanic origin; compare Old English weddian to pledge, wed

Synonyms for Wages

compensation, earnings, hire, income, pay, salary