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wages
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
wagesnoun
An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.
Synonyms:
allowance, compensation, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend
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wagesnoun
Synonyms:
hire, salary, pay, compensation, remuneration, stipend, allowance, earnings
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
wagesnoun
Synonyms:
compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary
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List of paraphrases for "wages":
salaries, wage, salary, pay, earnings, remuneration, treatments, payroll, salaires, gore
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#246 | take | |
#357 | return | |
#539 | payment | |
#599 | pay | |
#604 | issue | |
#1630 | fee | |
#2197 | hire | |
#2419 | advantage | |
#3099 | compensation | |
#3537 | salary | |
#3776 | earnings | |
#4557 | yield | |
#5296 | treatments | |
#5323 | wage | |
#6846 | wages | |
#7044 | payroll | |
#7439 | reward | |
#7517 | proceeds | |
#8584 | gore | |
#8756 | allowance | |
#8792 | salaries | |
#15700 | remuneration | |
#16895 | reinforcement | |
#22140 | payoff | |
#29761 | stipend | |
#33967 | bribe | |
#51630 | takings | |
#61208 | recompense | |
#75462 | honorarium | |
#143090 | salaires | |
#307426 | requital |
How to use wages in a sentence?
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a employee. Profits make you a fortune
If you just go after those companies that are paying the lowest wages, you're not going to benefit in the long run because they can always find cheaper wages somewhere.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
At a time when the middle class is shrinking, poverty is increasing and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages it makes no sense to me to have an immigration bill which, over a period of years, would bring millions of 'guest workers' into this country who are prepared to work for lower wages than American workers, we need to increase wages in this country, not lower them.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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