Wages

wage  (wj)

n.

1. Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.

2. wages Economics The portion of the national product that represents the aggregate paid for all contributing labor and services as distinguished from the portion retained by management or reinvested in capital goods.

3. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb. the wages of sin.

tr.v. waged, wag·ing, wag·es

To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

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[Middle English, from Old North French, of Germanic origin.]

Thesaurus

Noun

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wages - a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" reward, payoff aftermath, consequence - the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual