Wages
['wedʒɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; 'the wages of sin is death'; 'virtue is its own reward'.
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Definition
(n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Hire, salary, pay, compensation, remuneration, stipend, allowance, earnings.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Remuneration, hire, compensation, stipend, salary, allowance
ANT:Gratuity, douceur, premium, bonus, grace
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons engaging in new enterprises. To pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction. To have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest that is being taken against you. An increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking.
Typist: Shane
Examples
- I took my wages to my pillow, and passed the night counting them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And my wages? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It must always, in the long-run, be advanced to him by his immediate employer, in the advanced state of wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Twelve shillings a week, even when they are an old man's wages, bury themselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You say poor labourers cannot afford to buy bread at a high price, unless they had higher wages. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He does not, therefore, dispute about wages, but is willing to employ labour at any price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You are a rich man, upon my life, to waste wages in that way. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His high wages arise altogether from the hardship, disagreeableness, and dirtiness of his work. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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