ALL meanings of wages
wage
W w - noun wages Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage. 1
- noun wages Usually, wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital). 1
- noun wages Usually, wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return: The wages of sin is death. 1
- noun wages Obsolete. a pledge or security. 1
- verb with object wages to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation. 1
- verb with object wages Chiefly British Dialect. to hire. 1
- verb with object wages Obsolete. to stake or wager. to pledge. 1
- verb without object wages Obsolete. to contend; struggle. 1
- noun wages Plural form of wage. 1
- noun plural wages payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis 0
- noun plural wages 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 0
- noun plural wages recompense, return, or yield 0
- noun wages Someone's wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do. 0