Synonyms for wages
wages

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1. 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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1. wages

   Synonyms:
   remuneration, hire, compensation, stipend, salary, allowance

   Antonyms:
   gratuity, douceur, premium, bonus, grace

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. wages, reward, payoffnoun

   a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

   "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"

   Synonyms:
   issue, return, bribe, payoff, yield, reinforcement, advantage, reward, final payment, take, proceeds, takings

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1. wagesnoun

   Synonyms:
   hire, salary, pay, compensation, remuneration, stipend, allowance, earnings

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1. wagesnoun

   Synonyms:
   compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary

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1. List of paraphrases for "wages":

   salaries, wage, salary, pay, earnings, remuneration, treatments, payroll, salaires, gore

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How to use wages in a sentence?

1. Genelle Holgerson:

   We feel lucky today that she is alive, it has cost me and my family lost wages not to mention stress and heartache.

2. Ed Murray:

   Rather than investing in lawyers to prevent workers from earning higher wages, it is time for these large businesses to begin investing in a higher minimum wage for their employees.

3. Sriramji Shete:

   We have not heard of any such instances, if they are unhappy with the wages or the conditions, why would they keep coming back?

4. Max Arias:

   As LAUSD parents and workers, SEIU Local 99 members know a strike will be a sacrifice but the school district has pushed workers to take this action, families have been sacrificing for far too long on poverty wages. Students have been sacrificing for too long in school environments that are not clean, safe or supportive for all.

5. Azim Shah:

   Once a week, we are given a slip that permits us to go out to buy basics. The rest of the time, we either work or wait in our rooms, if there is a medical emergency or problem, our supervisor deals with it. In most cases, it means wages are cut.