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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
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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 |
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Obviously if inflation is running below our 2% target, unemployment is low and wages are growing - seems to be a good thing.
We still have problems because our cut has still not been restored. Literally, it's a month-to-month suspense on whether we can meet wages.
This couple ordered lots of expensive wine and the staff were really upset as they went out of their way to treat them well, while it wasn’t a massive bill, it represented someone’s wages.
Even though minimum wages might go up by 7%, in many states and cities, labor costs aren’t going to go up anywhere as much as they have in the past, because they already have gone up, that also means that prices aren’t going to go up at [places like] restaurants.
When I say we need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, that's going to impact the country but it will impact African-Americans even more. When I talk about pay equity for women workers, it will impact all women but it will impact African-American women even more because they are more discriminated against and their wages are even lower than white women.
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