Definitions for wages

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wages wage

Spelling: [weyj]

IPA: /weɪdʒ/

Wages is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in wages (aegsw).

Definitions for wages

noun

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:
4. Obsolete. a pledge or security.

verb (used with object)

1. to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.):
2. Chiefly British Dialect. to hire.
3. Obsolete. to stake or wager. to pledge.

verb (used without object)

1. Obsolete. to contend; struggle.

Origin of wages

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English: pledge, security Anglo-French; Old French guage gage¹ Vulgar Latin *wadium Germanic (see Examples for wages

wages are stagnant and middle-class household incomes continue to decline.

Do not show yourselves ungrateful to the Corn by denying her servants their wages.

I now got my wages for the Canton voyage; but they lasted me only a fortnight!

Annual wages range from $10,000-$13,000, well below the poverty line of $23,000 for a family of four.

On Friday, the stock market hit new highs—even as wages were stagnating.

Harping about a Republican war on women while wages stagnate and growth sputters is trivial and desperate.

The next spring he hired me regular and give me wages every month.

So I am to report my discharge to you, and ask you for my wages.

Then you could have stayed in the factory, and got your wages regularly every week.

The miners themselves went on strike again and again, trying to get their wages raised.