Wages

Definition: Wages

Wages

Noun

1. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward".

Date "wages" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Wages

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Wages Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgements threatened against the withholding of (Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5; comp. James 5:4); paid in money (Matt. 20:1-14); to Jacob in kind (Gen. 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7, 8, 41). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
	To pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction. To have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest that is being taken against you. An increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Wages Giles Moore, in 1659, paid his mowers sixteenpence an acre. In 1711 Timothy Burrell, Esq., paid twentypence an acre; in 1686 he paid Mary his cook fifty shillings a year; in 1715 he had raised the sum to fifty-five shillings. (Sussex Archaeological Collections, iii. pp. 163, 170.) For wages in the reign of Henry VIII., see preface of vol. i. Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., edited by J. S. Brewer, pp. 108-119. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Statistics	Any type of payment for service during a given period. It is immaterial whether wages are paid on an hourly basis, fixed salary per payroll period, on a commission basis, piecework, per mile, or job arrangement, or by payment in kind(board, room, or merchandise). Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Wages

Synonyms: payoff (n), reward (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Wages

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Price	Noun: price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages; (remuneration); value; a.
Reward	Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Wages

English words defined with "wages": Arrear ♦ blue-collar, bond servant, Bond service, bondmaid, bondman, bondsman, bondswoman, bondwoman, bring in ♦ clear, collective agreement, competitive, Conduct money, control, copartnership ♦ day laborer, day labourer, Dead horse, dock ♦ earn, earner, Earning, emolument, employed, escalation, escalator, escalator clause ♦ freeze, Full pay ♦ gain, garnishee ♦ indemnify, index, indexation ♦ labor, labor agreement, labor contract, labour ♦ make, militant ♦ pay envelope, pay packet, paycheck, paymaster, payoff, payroll, payroll check, paysheet, pitifully, proletariat, propertyless, protection, pull in ♦ realise, realize, reward ♦ security, shipping articles, sick pay, sliding scale ♦ take in, take-home, Tasker, toil, Turn-out ♦ wage concession, wage earner, wage floor, wage freeze, wage scale, wage schedule, wage-earning, Wages fund, withholding, withholding tax, working class, working-class, works council. (references)

Specialty definitions using "wages": brazen law of wages ♦ Hangman's Wages ♦ iron law of wages ♦ real value wages, real wages ♦ subsistence law of wages ♦ wages in real terms, Wages of Sin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Wages

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Remember, Ezra: The wages of sin are syphilis, gonorrhea and death. (Deranged; writing credit: Alan Ormsby) No, of course not. But what makes wage slaves? Wages! (The Cocoanuts; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) Now to make sure we get the best government that money can buy, Congress has passed a new one hundred percent withholding of all wages and earnings. (The Wizard of Speed and Time; writing credit: Mike Jittlov) You've heard of the wages of sin? (The Crow: Stairway to Heaven; writing credit: Nick Cannon)
Lyrics	These are the wages of love (CRADLE OF LOVE; performing artist: Billy Idol) Asking only workman's wages, I come lookin' for a job, (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)
Clever	The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday. (references; author: unknown) It is not the employer who pays wages, he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Work and Wages (1945) The Wages of Sin (1938) Union Wages (1932) Wages of Conscience (1927) The Wages of Sin (1922)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Wages

Domain	Title
References	Minimum Wages and Workweeks in Asia and Oceana, 1999 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us (reference) The Prisoners of Welfare: Liberating America's Poor from Unemployment and Low Wages (reference) The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (reference) The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (reference) The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Salaries And Wages For Michigan Municipalities Over 1000 Population (reference) Employment & Wages Annual Averages (reference) Covered Employment & Wages In South Carolina (reference) Source Book On Collective Bargaining Wages Benefits And Other Contract Issues (reference) Wages And Working Conditions By Occupation (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection (reference) The Wages of Fear (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Wages of Sin (reference) Wages of Sin (Limited Edition) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Sin Mission Pack 1: Wages Of Sin (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Wages

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Photo Album: Wages

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Department Napoleon of State: who wages insurrections against Zelaya and plots peace for the infant Emperor Pu Yi.Credit: Library of Congress.		The town of Pullman, Illinois--the homes and wages of the Pullman operatives.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoers. Leave field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents per hour.Credit: Library of Congress.		Girl fieldworkers at the King Farm on strike against seventeen cents an hour wages. Morrisville, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful.Credit: Library of Congress.		Pea pickers. Wages (1939): one cent per pound. Hamper holds about twenty eight pounds. Near Niland, Imperial County, California.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Catania, Sicily. Rebuilding the city. Wages comparable with peacetime are being paid by the Allied government. This money is charged against the Italian government, and will be paid later.Credit: Library of Congress.		Apartheid in practice : jobs & wages in South Africa.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Strike! : while the iron is hot! : wages for housework.Credit: Library of Congress.		In this we trust : the women of the world are serving notice! : we want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault ...Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Wages

Author	Quotation
Martin Luther	Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
	Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
Mohammed	Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry.
Thomas Carlyle	A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
	"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
William Shakespeare	Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Wages

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Master and servant are names as old as history, but given to those of far different condition; for a freeman makes himself a servant to another, by selling him, for a certain time, the service he undertakes to do, in exchange for wages he is to receive: and though this commonly puts him into the family of his master, and under the ordinary discipline thereof; yet it gives the master but a temporary power over him, and no greater than what is contained in the contract between them. (Second Treatise of Government)
Communist Manifesto	1848	The growing competition among the bourgeois, and the resulting commercial crises, make the wages of the workers ever more fluctuating. (reference)
The Emancipation Proclamation	1862	And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. (Abraham Lincoln)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	There shall be paid by the German Government the total cost of all armies of the Allied and Associated Governments in occupied German territory from the date of the signature of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, including the keep of men and beasts, lodging and billeting, pay and allowances, salaries and wages, bedding, heating, lighting, clothing, equipment, harness and saddlery, armament and rolling-stock, air services, treatment of sick and wounded, veterinary and remount services, transport service of all sorts (such as by rail, sea or river, motor lorries), communications and correspondence, and in general the cost of all administrative or technical services the working of which is necessary for the training of troops and for keeping their numbers up to strength and preserving their military efficiency. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Wages

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, willingness, all fail him at once.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	In California they got high wages.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by laboring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Wages

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is estimated that medical costs and lost wages because of otitis media amount to $5 billion a year in the United States. (references)
		Individual counseling occurs once a week, and group therapy sessions are held three times a week. After 2 months of day treatment and at least 2 weeks of abstinence, participants graduate to a 4-month work component that pays wages that can be used to rent inexpensive, drug-free housing. (references)
Business		Rather, the Labor Law allows local governments to determine their own standards on minimum wages. (references)
		Allegations have included excessive work hours, nonpayment of wages, and verbal and physical abuse. (references)
		The human resource series covers minimum wages, child labor, unionization and collective bargaining. (references)
Children	Georgia	The staff was paid poorly, and wages were many months in arrears. (references)
	Luxembourg	Businesses and enterprises with at least 25 employees by law must fill a quota for hiring workers with disabilities and must pay them prevailing wages. (references)
	Burma	Teachers' salaries are far below subsistence wages and have forced many teachers to quit teaching out of economic necessity; on average, a teacher's pay is equal only to approximately 7 dollars (10,000 Kyats) monthly. (references)
Civil Liberties	Moldova	As a result of low wages, private Internet accounts are prohibitively expensive; however, Internet cafes are plentiful in major cities. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	In July the Council of Ministers approved a new press law establishing a journalists' association to address wages, benefits, and relations with management. (references)
	Paraguay	In March police fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets on a group of teachers demanding payment of overdue wages in the town of J. Eulogio Estigarribia. (references)
Discrimination	Brazil	The International Labor Organization (ILO) notes that important differences in wages affect women and blacks, particularly in rural areas. (references)
Economic History	Barbados	Wages in Barbados are among the highest in the Caribbean. (references)
	China	Workers are paid a salary, hourly wages, or piece-work wages. (references)
Human Rights	Israel and the occupied territories	Prisoners receive wages for prison work and benefits for good behavior. (references)
	Russia	Socioeconomic rights groups are the most numerous and monitor issues such as unpaid wages and benefits. (references)
	China	Fines for over-quota children can be extremely high, equaling several years' wages for an average worker. (references)
Indigenous People	Central African Republic	Pygmies often work for villagers at wages lower than those paid to members of other groups. (references)
	Paraguay	Low wages, long work hours, infrequent payment (or nonpayment) of wages, job insecurity, lack of access to social security benefits, and racial discrimination are common. (references)
Minorities	Colombia	The March 2000 report of the UNHCHR noted that an estimated 80 percent of Afro-Colombians live in conditions of extreme poverty, that 74 percent receive wages below the legal minimum, and that their municipalities have the highest rates of poverty. (references)
Political Economy	Jordan	Wages remain stagnant. (references)
	Tajikistan	Many, but not all, wages and pensions are paid. (references)
	JAMAICA	Wages in U.S.-owned companies generally exceed the industry average. (references)
Women	Indonesia	Female workers in manufacturing generally receive lower wages than men. (references)
	Czech Republic	Women's median wages lag behind those of men by roughly 20 percent, although the gap is narrowing. (references)
	Belgium	The act outlaws discrimination in hiring, working conditions, promotion, wages, and contract termination. (references)
Worker Rights	Korea	Government ministries set wages. (references)
	Portugal	Most workers received higher wages. (references)
	San Marino	Wages generally were higher than the minimum. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Wages

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The laborer is rewarded by high wages in the construction of works of internal improvement, which are extending with unprecedented rapidity.
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	Perhaps we never shall know the old levels of wages again, because war invariably readjusts compensations, and the necessaries of life will show their inseparable relationship, but we must strive for normalcy to reach stability.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Good business means more jobs and better wages.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	For this would mean tens of billions of dollars more each year in production, profits, wages, and public revenues.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Business, labor, and the consumer all have a high stake in keeping wages and prices within the framework of the guideposts that have already served the Nation so well.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	After taxes and inflation, there was a healthy increase in workers' wages.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	As productivity rises, so do wages, and our standard of living.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Wages

"Wages" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.89% of the time. "Wages" is used about 3,693 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	99.89%	3,689	2,631
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.11%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	3,693	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Wages

The following table summarizes the usage of "wages" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Wages	Last name	2,000	7,112
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Wages

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wages".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Shicron	N/A	Biblical	His wages
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Wages

Expressions using "wages": a debt wages etc ♦ back wages ♦ be paid one's wages ♦ Board wages ♦ brazen law of wages ♦ combined wages ♦ commodity wages ♦ cut in the wages ♦ daily wages ♦ freeze wages ♦ get high wages ♦ guaranteed wages ♦ hourly wages ♦ income tax on wages ♦ iron law of wages ♦ minimum wages ♦ pegged wages ♦ raise wages ♦ rate of wages ♦ real value wages ♦ real wages ♦ reduction in wages ♦ reduction of wages ♦ scale of wages ♦ starvation wages ♦ subsistence law of wages ♦ task wages ♦ the wages of sin ♦ to scale a debt wages etc ♦ to scale down a debt wages etc ♦ wages and salaries ♦ wages bill ♦ wages clerk ♦ wages fund ♦ wages in kind ♦ wages in real terms ♦ wages per hour ♦ wages slip ♦ weekly wages. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "wages": wages-auction, wages-fund, wages-prices.
	Ending with "wages": money-wages.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wages

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
wages	361	wages and unemployment	12
wages and salary	80	baby sitter wages	11
minimum wages	62	teacher wages	11
job wages	54	overtime wages	11
prevailing wages	44	employment wages	11
employee wages	38	lpn wages	11
davis bacon wages	37	california prevailing wages	10
average wages	32	federal wages	10
award wages	28	florida wages	8
garnish wages	28	compare wages	8
career wages	28	wages garnished	8
nursing wages	26	occupational wages	8
garnishment of wages	25	california wages	8
hourly wages	20	nanny wages	8
garnishing wages	17	government wages	7
nurse wages	17	pharmacist wages	7
security social wages	14	registered nurse wages	7
mrs wages	14	canadian wages	7
wages of sin	14	union wages	7
labor wages	13	illinois wages	7
		driver truck wages	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wages

Language		Translations for "wages"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		salaris (salary, wage). (various references)

Albanian		rrogë (earnings, emolument, gainings, living wage, pay, salary, wage), fitim (benefit, earnings, gain, gainings, income, makings, payoff, percentage, profit, return, salary, spoil, victory). (various references)

Arabic		‏معاشات, ‏معاش (livelihood, pay, pension, salary, stipend), ‏أجور, ‏أجرة (pay, rent, wage), ‏راتب (pay, salary, screw, stipend). (various references)

Bulgarian		възнаграждения, заплати. (various references)

Chinese		薪水 (Emolument, Pay, Wage), 待遇 (pay, salary, status, treatment), 工錢 (salary), 工資 (pay). (various references)

Czech		služné (salary, wage), mzda (hire, pay, wage). (various references)

Danish		løn (maple, maple-tree, pay, remuneration, salary, wage), gage (salary, wage). (various references)

Dutch		loon (compensation, pay, remuneration, reward, salary, wage), salaris (salary, wage), gage (salary, wage), bezoldiging (pay, remuneration, salary, wage). (various references)

Esperanto		salajro (salary, wage). (various references)

Faeroese		løn (salary, wage). (various references)

Finnish		palkka (earnings, pay, payment, reward, salary, wage). (various references)

French		salaire (wage). (various references)

Frisian		lean (salary, wage), gaazje (salary, wage), fertsjinst (gain, profit, salary, wage). (various references)

German		Lohn (compensation, hire, meed, pay, prize, punishment, remuneration, repayment, reward, salary, wage), Löhne. (various references)

Greek		μισθοδοσία (pay, salary), μισθοί, ημερομίσθια. (various references)

Hebrew		משכורת (fee, pay, reward, salary, wage), מחיר (cost, expense, figure, price, toll, value, wage), שכר טרח�" (wage). (various references)

Hungarian		munkabér (wage). (various references)

Icelandic		laun (salary, wage). (various references)

Indonesian		penggajian (payment of wages). (various references)

Italian		salario (hire, pay, remuneration, salary, wage), paga (fee, pay, price, salary, wage, you pay). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		賃銀 (pay), 賃銭 (pay), 賃金 , 給金 (pay), 給料 (salary), 労銀 (labor wages), 労賃 , 工賃 (pay). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きゅうき�" (coccus, pay), きゅうりょう (hill, old fief, salary, suspension of fishing), �"うち�" (pay), ろうぎ�" (labor wages, recitation, singing), ろうち�", ち�"ぎ�" (groaning in distress, hum, meditation, painstaking elaboration on ones poem, pay), ち�"せ�" (contemplation, pay, sinking into deep thought, sinking to the depths). (various references)

Korean		임금 (King, Kings, Wage). (various references)

Malay		salaris (salary, wage), gaji (salary, wage). (various references)

Manx		faill (board, fare, fee, hire, pay, salary, stipend), argid (coinage, exchequer, finance, money, silver). (various references)

Papiamen		sueldo (salary, wage), salario (salary, wage), ganamentu (salary, wage). (various references)

Pig Latin		agesway

Portuguese		salário (earphone, fee, hire, income, mal-, pay, salary, stipend, wage). (various references)

Romanian		simbrie, salarizare (pay, salary), platã (anticipation, charge, check, custom, defrayal, disbursement, discharge, due, fee, hire, offset, pay, pay off, payment, price, reward), leafã (salary, screw, wage), chenzinã. (various references)

Russian		зарплата (pay, paycheck, salary, wage). (various references)

Scottish		tuarasdal (fee, reward, salary), taileas, foisteadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		plata (fee, pay, payday, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend, wage). (various references)

Spanish		salario (gainings, hire, pay, remuneration, salary, wage). (various references)

Swahili		mshahara (salary, wage). (various references)

Swedish		lön (emolument, hire, pay, repayment, reward, salary, screw, stipend, wage), arbetslön. (various references)

Turkish		yevmiye (daily wages, day-to-day money, per diem, remuneration, wage), maax (salary, wage), karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, requital, response, return, reward, riposte), işgücü maliyeti, haftalık (hebdomadal, sennight, wage, weekly), bedel (compensation, consideration, equivalent, forfeit, offset, pay, price, purchase money, quid pro quo, quittance, rate, requital, substitute, substitutional, worth), ücret (charge, dues, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, rate, remuneration, salary, stipend, terms, wage, wage rate). (various references)

Ukranian		розплата (forfeit, pay off, payoff, reckoning), відплата (atonement, comeback, comeuppance, nemesis, oblation, quits, requital, retaliation, retort, retribution, reward, wrack). (various references)

Vietnamese		quỹ tiền lương (wage-fund, wages-fund). (various references)

Welsh		cyflog (hire, wage). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wages

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	a, ahi, ba. (various references)
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	latron. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Ã¦s, beneficium, commoda, commodum, mercedem, merces, stipendia, stipendiis, stipendium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Wages

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 28
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Diasteilon ton misqon sou proV me kai dwsw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Constitue mercedem tuam quam dem tibi
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Appoynte what thy rewarde shalbe and I will geue it ye.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Wages

Language	Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 28
Cebuano	Ug miingon siya: Itagal mo kanako ang suhol mo, ug ihatag ko kanimo.
Croatian	I nadoda: "Odredi plaæu koju želiš od mene, i dat æu ti."
Danish	Og han sagde: "Bestem, hvad du vil have i Løn af mig, så vil jeg give dig den!"
Dutch	Hij zeide dan: Noem mij uitdrukkelijk uw loon, dat ik geven zal.
Finnish	Ja hän sanoi vielä: "Määrää palkka, joka minun on sinulle maksettava, niin minä sen annan".
French	fixe-moi ton salaire, et je te le donnerai.
German	bestimme den Lohn, den ich dir geben soll.
Haitian Creole	Di m' sa pou m' peye ou, m'a ba ou li.
Hungarian	És monda: Szabj bért magadnak és én megadom.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Katakan saja berapa yang kauminta."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan lagi kata Laban: Katakanlah kepadaku, apakah akan jadi upahmu, maka aku akan memberikan dia.
Maori	I mea ano ia, Whakaritea ki ahau te utu mou, a ka hoatu e ahau.
Norwegian	Så sa han: Si selv hvad du vil ha i lønn, så skal jeg gi dig det.
Portuguese	E disse mais: Determina-me o teu salário, que to darei.
Rumanian	hotqrqwte-mi simbria ta, wi yi -o voi da.``
Swedish	Och han sade ytterligare: "Bestäm vad du vill hava i lön av mig, så skall jag giva dig det."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Wages

Derivations
	Words ending with "wages": asswages, brewages, cowages, flowages, sewages, stowages, swages, towages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Wages" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: owage, Waage, waces, wadges, waes, waga, wagen, Wagga, waggen, wagi, wagol, wames, Wargasm, wayes, wayge, weegs, wege, weges, wegs, Wge, wrage, wuge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Wages"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "wages" (pronounced wā"juz)
4	-ā" j u z	ages, cages, engages, gauges, mages, pages, rages, sages, stages.
3	-j u z	acknowledges, advantages, alleges, appendages, arranges, arrearages, averages, badges, bandages, barges, beverages, binges, blockages, bridges, brokerages, bulges, cabbages, carriages, cartridges, centrifuges, challenges, changes, charges, colleges, cottages, countercharges, coverages, cringes, damages, dinges, disadvantages, discharges, discourages, diverges, dodges, dosages, dredges, edges, emerges, encourages, enlarges, envisages, exchanges, flanges, forages, Forges, fringes, fuselages, gorges, granges, grudges, hedges, heritages, hinges, hostages, images, impinges, indulges, infringes, interchanges, judges, languages, ledges, lineages, linkages, lodges, loges, lounges, lozenges, lunges, macrophages, maharajahs, manages, manges, marriages, merges, messages, midges, miscarriages, mischarges, misjudges, mismanages, mortgages, ninjas, nudges, obliges, oranges, orphanages, outages, outrages, overcharges, packages, partridges, passages, percentages, pilgrimages, pillages, pledges, plumages, plunges, porterages, presages, privileges, purges, rampages, ranges, ravages, refuges, repackages, ridges, sausages, savages, scourges, shortages, sieges, sponges, stockbrokerages, stooges, stoppages, surcharges, surges, syringes, tonnages, trudges, urges, usages, vantages, verges, vestiges, villages, vintages, voltages, voyages, wantages, wedges.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Wages

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: swage.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-s-w"
	-1 letter: ages, awes, gaes, sage, swag, waes, wage, wags.
	-2 letters: age, awe, gae, gas, sae, sag, saw, sea, seg, sew, wae, wag, was.
	-3 letters: ae, ag, as, aw, es, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-s-w"
	+1 letter: gawsie, sewage, swaged, swager, swages, wagers.
	+2 letters: asswage, cowages, earwigs, gawkers, gawkies, gawpers, geegaws, gewgaws, gnawers, sewages, stowage, swagers, swagged, swagger, swaggie, swagmen, towages, waggers, waggles, wagsome, wangles, wastage.
	+3 letters: asswaged, asswages, brewages, cowhages, dowagers, edgeways, flowages, gateways, gawkiest, getaways, gunwales, jigsawed, pawnages, ragweeds, resawing, sewerage, stowages, swaggers, swaggies, swearing, sweating, twangers, twangles, waftages, wageless, wagerers, wagoners, wanglers, wantages, warpages, wastages, wattages, weigelas, whangees, windages, wordages, wrangles.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.