wages
Meaning of wages
plural noun
- a fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis.
we were struggling to get better wages
an income of less than half the average wage
- carry on (a war or campaign).
it is necessary to destroy their capacity to wage war
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French, of Germanic origin; related to gage1 and wed.
Information about wages
- The singular form of wages is: wage.
- Languages in which wages is used:
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Hyphenation of wages
wages
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- wages is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
wages synonyms
Meaning reward:
Meaning the money paid to someone for regular work:
Meaning something given as a reward or in recompense for something done:
Meaning money paid for work or a service:
Meaning a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker:
Meaning a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office:
Meaning a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or as expenses to a clergyman, teacher, or public official:
Meaning a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services:
Meaning the amount of something that is permitted, especially within a set of regulations or for a specified purpose:
Meaning a payment given for professional services that are rendered nominally without charge:
Meaning money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments:
Meaning income, especially when of an organization and of a substantial nature:
Meaning an amount produced of an agricultural or industrial product:
Meaning a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something:
Meaning an increase in wealth or resources:
Meaning something, typically money, awarded to someone in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury:
Meaning compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made:
Meaning the action of repaying a person who has spent or lost money:
Meaning money obtained in return for labour or services:
Meaning the action or process of taking something:
Meaning money obtained from an event or activity:
Meaning organize and carry out:
Meaning put (a plan, order, or course of action) into effect:
Meaning follow or chase (someone or something):
Meaning commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on:
Meaning carry on (a trade or pursuit):
Meaning perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to acquire, improve or maintain proficiency in it:
Translation of wages
- French: salaire
- German: Gehalt
- Italian: stipendio, salario, remunerazione, emolumento
- Portuguese: salário
- Spanish: salario, sueldo
Anagrams of wages
Words that rhyme with wages
Ages, ages, ambages, cabbages, circumambages, cribbages, cubages, garbages, herbages, tubages, birdcages, bocages, boscages, brocages, cages, carucages, discages, encages, incages, ribcages, socages, soccages, uncages, adages, appendages, bandages, bavardages, blindages, bondages, brigandages, cloudages, contrabandages, cordages, faldages, fardages, frondages, garlandages, groundages, guardages, guidages, headages, hidages, husbandages, impoundages, marivaudages, pondages, poundages, scaffoldages, sondages, unbandages
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