wage

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  1. noun Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
  2. noun 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. noun A fitting return; a recompense. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb: the wages of sin.
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  • The manner in which the admission, that labour in fact stipulates for a given money-wage and not for a given real wage (provided that the real wage does not fall below a certain minimum), affects the analysis, can also be shown by pointing out that in this case the assumption that more labour is not available except at a greater real wage, which is fundamental to most of the argument, breaks down. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • If the wage is on a voyage basis, the heirs shall be entitled to the full voyage wage, and if the wage is a share of profits, it shall be fully payable. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • You know, the one I've described as the wage-slave job. —  Montag ...
  • More than 1,000 people, mostly immigrants, applied for 70 jobs at the store; the wage is about $10 an hour. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • More than 80 percent of Americans believe it's time to give workers a raise and back the drive to boost the minimum wage, and even business owners have said raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do. —  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG
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salary ·  income ·  tax ·  compensation ·  rend ·  allowance ·  pension ·  employment ·  price ·  labor ·  expense ·  debt

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wage:   wages ·  waging ·  waged
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old North French, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English wage, from Old French wage, guage, gage = Provencal gatge, gatghe, gaji = Spanish gage = Italian gaggio, a gage, pledge, guaranty: see gage, n.
  2. from Middle English wagen, from Old French wager, waigier, guager, gager, gagier, French gager = Provencal gatgar, gatjar, from Middle Latin wadiare, pledge: see gage, v., and cf. wed.
 

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