Antonyms for wageswages

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. wages

   Antonyms:
   gratuity, douceur, premium, bonus, grace

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

Matched Categories

1. • Consequence

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. wagesnoun

   Synonyms:
   compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary

How to use wages in a sentence?

1. Neil Saunders:

   Without a rise in wages, Amazon would be placing itself at a disadvantage in the labor market.

2. Renard Duvall:

   We have never tried to price our wages so high they run the company out of business, we want our company to be profitable.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   Instead of creating jobs or raising workers’ wages, the Republican Congress spent seven months doing everything it could to raise Americans’ health costs to hand tax breaks to the richest, now, after squandering months on a cruel and dangerous agenda, Republicans have closed down Congress for five weeks with no jobs bill, no infrastructure bill, no budget, and no plan to avert a catastrophic default.

4. Elizabeth Warren:

   Huge grocery chains like Kroger have made billions by jacking up consumer prices. And they're using those profits to reward executives instead of raising wages so workers can make ends meet, i stand with Kroger workers in their fight for a fair contract.

5. Henry Ford:

   It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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