WAGES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wages mean? 

• WAGES (noun)
  The noun WAGES has 1 sense:

1. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

  Familiarity information: WAGES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAGES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

payoff; reward; wages

Context example:

virtue is its own reward

Hypernyms ("wages" is a kind of...):

aftermath; consequence (the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual)

 Context examples 

"Scorch that an' it's twenty dollars out of your wages."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An establishment was also made of six hundred persons to be my domestics, who had board-wages allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for them very conveniently on each side of my door.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At last he said, “Master, my time is up; I must go home and see my poor mother once more: so pray pay me my wages and let me go.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary; the occupation for which you are paid.

(Employment, NCI Thesaurus)

Terminology relevant to the state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.

(CDISC SDTM Employment Status Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leah had been saying something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked—She gets good wages, I guess?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A code specifying the method used by the employer to compute the employee's salary or wages.

(Employee Salary Type, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)