Wage

Definitions: Wage

Wage

Noun

1. Something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings".

Verb

1. As of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Wage

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Wage

Mom, Bart went with a bunch of kids to go wage war on Shelbyville! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We can't wage wars. (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch)

Wages? Do you want to be wage slaves? (The Cocoanuts; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind)

The only fluid I see here is the puddle of piss refusing to pay our wage. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Minimum Wage! (Minimum Wage; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

The Song of the Wage Slave (1915)

Minimum Wage (performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Living Wage : Building a Fair Economy (reference)

• Living Wage Policy : The Basics (reference)

• The Family Wage Work, Gender, and Children in the Modern Economy (reference)

• Wage Slave No More: Law and Taxes for the Self-Employed (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Naa Wage Reports (reference)

• South Carolina Wage Survey (reference)

• Wage And Benefit Handbook (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Registered Building Trades Apprenticeships: High Skill, High Wage, Careers Video (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Minimum Wage Rock N Roll (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Negro wage hands filling bag with corn they have just shucked for landlord who is a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.

Wage laborer topping tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.

Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support.Credit: Library of Congress.

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earns one dollar per day. Childress County, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Tobacco field in early morning where white sharecropper and wage laborer are priming tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework factory. Minimum wage is six dollars a week.Credit: Library of Congress.

Catania, Sicily. Rebuilding the city. The Allied government is paying a wage comparable with peacetime for the labor. This money is charged to the Italian government, which will return it later.Credit: Library of Congress.

Four adults and six children, from Passaic, N.J., picket the White House following President Coolidge's refusal to listen to their complaints about wage cuts in the textile industry.Credit: Library of Congress.

30 hours work for 40 hours pay! Smash racist unemployment! Bust the wage freeze! U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! : May Day.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. (reference)

Third.�The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Pay him a wage and take all the crop.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

These usually add about 30-35 percent to the basic wage cost. (references)

The application fee is equal to the minimum monthly wage in Poland. (references)

Accounts that combine wage and credit functions have proven to be more attractive for Ukrainian banks. (references)

Children

Seychelles

Children in the latter programs received a training stipend, which was less than the minimum wage. (references)

Mexico

Penalties under the law include fines of 500 to 1,000 times Mexico City's minimum wage and possible administrative jail time. (references)

Brazil

Persons with Disabilities The Constitution contains several provisions for persons with disabilities, stipulating a minimum wage, educational opportunities, and access to public buildings and public transportation. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

He claimed that he was not a leader of the rally but was fined a multiple of 150 times the minimum wage, or $500 (800,000 rubles). (references)

Azerbaijan

The finances of most independent and opposition papers were precarious and they had increasing problems meeting their wage and tax payment obligations. (references)

Saudi Arabia

It will issue membership cards permitting journalists to work in the country and oversee introduction of a minimum wage, job security, and other benefits for journalists. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Rep

Most jobs pay salaries based on the minimum wage. (references)

Latvia

Union influence on the wage setting process is limited. (references)

Japan

Investors should be aware of Japan's high wage structure. (references)

Human Rights

Cambodia

The courts were subject to influence and interference by the executive, and there is widespread corruption among judges, virtually none of whom received a living wage. (references)

Indigenous People

Panama

Indigenous workers consistently do not receive the basic rights provided by the Labor Code, such as minimum wage, social security benefits, termination pay, and job security. (references)

Thailand

Members of hilltribes without proper documentation, who account for approximately half the estimated 700,000 to 880,000 such persons, still face restrictions on their movement, may not own land, and are not protected by labor laws, including minimum wage requirements. (references)

Minorities

Estonia

The examination fee for either language test--for employment or citizenship--is 15 percent of the monthly minimum wage, although it is waived for the unemployed. (references)

Indonesia

The Laskar Jihad ("holy war troops," a Muslim group that was formed in 2000) engaged in paramilitary training, and leaders of the group announced that they intended to wage war on Christians in the Moluccas and other parts of the country. (references)

Political Economy

BOLIVIA

Wage employment for children under 14 is illegal. (references)

Political Rights

Kazakhstan

The election law requires candidates for both houses to meet minimum age and education requirements and to pay a nonrefundable registration fee of 25 times the minimum monthly wage of $500 (approximately 70,000 tenge). (references)

Trade

Burma

Although regulations set a minimum employment age and wage, and maximum work hours, these are not uniformly observed, especially in private factories and other establishments. (references)

Travel

Korea

In the majority of Korean households, the father is the primary wage earner, while the mother stays at home. (references)

Women

Colombia

Female rural workers are affected most by wage discrimination and unemployment. (references)

Mauritania

In the modern wage sector, women also received family benefits, including 3 months of maternity leave. (references)

Ukraine

At the end of 2000, the average monthly wage for women was 70.9 percent of the average monthly wage for men. (references)

Worker Rights

Cambodia

By law the minimum wage can vary regionally. (references)

Azerbaijan

Most workers earn more than the minimum wage. (references)

Philippines

Violation of minimum wage standards is common. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "wage": annual wage plan ♦ automatic wage adjustment ♦ average wage earner ♦ basic wage ♦ beggarly wage ♦ day wage ♦ differential wage ♦ earn a good wage ♦ efficiency wage ♦ going wage ♦ guaranteed annual wage ♦ hourly wage ♦ incentive wage ♦ interstate wage combining ♦ job wage ♦ just wage ♦ living wage ♦ local wage nato civilian employee ♦ minimum wage ♦ monthly wage ♦ nominal wage ♦ nominal wage income ♦ occupational wage ♦ piece wage ♦ prevailing wage ♦ standard wage ♦ subsistence wage ♦ system of wage bracket ♦ Task wage ♦ time wage ♦ To wage battle ♦ To wage one's law ♦ unit wage ♦ wage a campaign ♦ wage adjustment ♦ wage agreement ♦ wage assignment ♦ wage bill ♦ wage claim ♦ wage concession ♦ wage control ♦ wage cost ♦ wage cost inflation ♦ wage cut ♦ wage cuts ♦ wage demand ♦ wage differentials ♦ wage differentiation ♦ wage dispute ♦ wage drift ♦ wage earner ♦ wage earners ♦ wage effective war against ♦ wage floor ♦ wage freeze ♦ wage fund ♦ wage hike ♦ wage incentive ♦ wage increase ♦ wage labor ♦ wage labour ♦ wage level ♦ wage negotiations ♦ wage packet ♦ wage pattern ♦ wage policy ♦ wage rate ♦ wage rate fixed in accordance with collective and other arrangements ♦ wage rates ♦ wage regulation ♦ wage restraint ♦ wage review ♦ wage rise ♦ wage scale ♦ wage schedule ♦ wage setter ♦ wage settlement ♦ wage slave ♦ wage slip ♦ wage squeeze ♦ wage stabilization ♦ wage supplements ♦ wage talks ♦ wage tax ♦ wage war ♦ wage war against ♦ wage war against smth. ♦ wage war on ♦ wage war on smb. ♦ wage worker. Additional references.

Beginning with "wage": wage-allowance, wage-bargainers, wage-bargaining, wage-based, wage-bill, wage-book, wage-books, wage-ceiling, wage-change, wage-cost, wage-costs, wage-cuts, wage-cutting, wage-dependency, wage-determination, wage-drift, wage-earner, wage-earners, wage-earning, wage-employment, wage-fixing, wage-freeze, wage-freezes, wage-fund, wage-goods, wage-increases, wage-indexation, wage-intensive, wage-labour, wage-labourer, wage-labourers, wage-led, wage-money, wage-packet, wage-packets, wage-paid, wage-paying, wage-payment, wage-price, wage-price spiral, wage-price-expectations, wage-price-index, wage-rates, wage-real, wage-reducing, wage-regulating, wage-regulation, wage-related, wage-relationship, wage-rental, wage-restraint, wage-scale, wage-setters, wage-setting, wage-slavery, wage-slaves, wage-slips, wage-structure, wage-workers.

Ending with "wage": high-wage, low-wage, minimum-wage, money-wage, non-wage, real-wage, vacancy-wage.

Containing "wage": low-wage group.

Afrikaan

salaris (salary, wages). (various references)

Albanian

zhvilloj (develop, drive, elaborate, evolve, expand, grow, hold, increase, navigate, prosecute), rrogë (earnings, emolument, gainings, living wage, pay, salary, wages), pasojë (after effect, aftermath, consequence, Dent, harvest, offspring, prejudice, reflex, result, sequel, train), pagesë (carfare, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, fare, fee, honorarium, pay, payment, quittance, remuneration, salary), pagë (earnings, emolument, gainings, pay, prebend, salary, screw, stipend), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, commit, despatch, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, effectuate, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, commit, create, do, effect, effectuate, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wreak). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشب (thrust), ‏عاقبة (consequence, ramification, sequel), ‏إستخدم عاملا, ‏إستأجر (charter, hire, lease, recruit, rent), ‏أجرة (pay, rent, wages), ‏شن حرب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

възнаграждение (compensation, consideration, emolument, guerdon, pay, payment, payoff, premium, remuneration, return, reward), възмездие (comeuppance, judgement, judgment, nemesis, pay, payment, payoff, requital, restitution, retribution, reward), водя (carry on, conduct, deliver, go, guide, keep, lead, manage, pilot, prevent, prosecute, pursue, take, usher in), отплата (meed, nemesis, payoff, quittance, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retaliation, retort, return, reward), надничен, надница (pay, paycheck, remuneration, screw), заплащане (pay, payment, payout, remuneration), заплата (earnings, emolument, pay, paycheck, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend), провеждам (carry through, conduct, instrument, pursue, put through, run off, transact). (various references)

Chinese 

薪水 (salary). (various references)

Czech

vést (administer, captain, carry on, channel, conduce, conduct, convey, direct, give, go, head, keep, lead, look, run, Shepherd, spearhead, steer, stock, supervise, throw, walk, wheel), služné (salary, wages), mzda (hire, pay, wages). (various references)

Danish

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

Dutch

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

Esperanto

salajro (salary, wages). (various references)

Faeroese

løn (salary, wages). (various references)

Farsi 

مزد (Hire, Pension), کارمزد (Journeywork), حمل کردن (Bear, Carry, Convey, Freight, Haul, Port, Porter, Transport), جنگ برپاکردن , اجیرکردن (Hire), اجرت (Hire, Pay), اجر (Brick, Remuneration), دستمزد (Stipend), دسترنج . (various references)

Finnish

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

French

salaire (wages), appointements (wages). (various references)

Frisian

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

German

lohn (compensation, hire, meed, pay, prize, punishment, remuneration, repayment, reward, salary, wages). (various references)

Greek 

μισθόσ (earnings, emolument, hire, pay, salary, stipend), ημερομίσθιο, επιχειρώ (attempt, embark on, tackle, undertake, venture), διεξάγω (conduct, prosecute, transact). (various references)

Hebrew 

משכורת (fee, pay, reward, salary, wages), מחיר (cost, expense, figure, price, toll, value, wages), תשכורת (earned income), שכר טרח�" (wages), שכר (earnings, fare, fee, pay, payment, profit, remuneration, reward, salary), �'מול (bereft, earnings, offset, payment, recompense, repayment, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward, weanling). (various references)

Hungarian

munkabér (wages), bér (hire, lease, pay, payment, rental). (various references)

Icelandic

laun (salary, wages). (various references)

Indonesian

upah (pay), imbalan (repayment), gaji (pay, salary). (various references)

Italian

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

Japanese Kanji 

給 (gift). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent). (various references)

Korean 

임금 (King, Kings, Wages). (various references)

Malay

salaris (salary, wages), gaji (salary, wages). (various references)

Manx

lught ny faillee (wage-earner), jannoo er (ail, prey upon, trouble, wage war), fer ny faillee (hired labourer, hired servant, wage-earner), faill vioghee (living wage), ben ny faillee (wage earner), aggyrt faillee (wage claim). (various references)

Papiamen

sueldo (salary, wages), salario (salary, wages), ganamentu (salary, wages). (various references)

Pig Latin

ageway

Portuguese

salário (earphone, fee, hire, income, mal-, pay, salary, stipend, wages), ordenado (income tax, orderly, pay, salary, tidy, wages). (various references)

Romanian

salariu (earnings, hire, pay packet, salary, stipend), rãsplatã (bestowal, desert, guerdon, payment, payola, price, prize, recompense, requital, retribution, return, reward), purta un rãzboi, preţ (charge, cost, damage, expense, figure, offer, price, purchase, rate, value, worth), leafã (salary, screw, wages), duce (bear, blow away, bring, carry, convey, deliver, die, drive, duke, fare, fool, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, tend, wear). (various references)

Russian 

вести войну (wage war), заработная плата (pay, wage packet, wages), зарплата (pay, paycheck, salary, wages), проводить (carry, conduct, draw, hold in, hosted, lead, sideswipe, usher in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

voditi (conduct, direct, guide, keep, lead, stand, take), plata (fee, pay, payday, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend, wages), naknada (indemnity, recompense, reimbursement, requital), nadnica, dnevnica. (various references)

Spanish

salario (gainings, hire, pay, remuneration, salary, wages), jornal (hire, pay). (various references)

Swahili

mshahara (salary, wages). (various references)

Swedish

lön (emolument, hire, pay, repayment, reward, salary, screw, stipend, wages). (various references)

Turkish

yevmiye (daily wages, day-to-day money, per diem, remuneration, wages), yürütmek (collar, filch, go through with, hold down, lift, make away with, Nick, pilfer, prig, prosecute, purloin, pursue, push, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, walk, walk away with, walk off with), sürdürmek (carry on, continue, elongate, follow, go ahead with smth., keep, keep going, keep on, keep the ball rolling, keep up, lead, maintain, perpetuate, persist, prolong, prosecute, pursue, remain, support, sustain, uphold), maax (salary, wages), maaş (compensation, earnings, emolument, pay, salary, stipend), haftalık (hebdomadal, sennight, wages, weekly), devam ettirmek (carry on, extend, keep, keep smth. going, keep the ball rolling, keep up, sustain, uphold), ücret (charge, dues, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, rate, remuneration, salary, stipend, terms, wage rate, wages). (various references)

Turkmen 

uruюmak (fight, struggle, wage war). (various references)

Ukranian 

ставити на карту (wager), складати (accumulate, aggregate, amount, bolt, compose, congregate, make, make up, number, redact, tot), наймати (employ, engage, hire), заробітна плата, здійснювати (actualize, bring to pass, compass, effect, effectuate, embody, execute, exercise, implement, make, materialize, perpetrate, practise, put into practice, realize), платити жалування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thang lương (wage-scale), sự tăng lương (wage-rise), sự hạn mức tiền lương (wage-freeze), quỹ tiền lương (wage-fund, wages-fund), người l� m công ăn lương (wage-earner), giấy trả lương (wage-sheet). (various references)

Welsh

pae (pay), hur (hire), cyflog (hire, wages). (various references)

addir. (various references)

æs, merces. (various references)

wage. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wage": waged, wageless, wager, wagered, wagerer, wagerers, wagering, wagers, wages, wageworker, wageworkers. (additional references)

Words ending with "wage": asswage, brewage, cowage, flowage, sewage, stowage, swage, towage. (additional references)

Words containing "wage": asswaged, asswages, brewages, cowages, dowager, dowagers, flowages, sewages, stowages, swaged, swager, swagers, swages, towages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aage, aweg, awg, ewige, hwange, owage, uwage, Waage, wabe, wace, wacee, wadge, wafe, waga, wagen, wagg, Wagga, waggen, wagi, wagol, wagy, waje, wame, wange, wape, Wase, wate, watep, waug, waye, wayg, wayge, waze, weeg, Weegee, wege, Weghe, weige, wenge, werge, wg, wga, Wge, whag, wige, wiget, wigi, wilge, wirge, woge, wrage, wug, wuge, yage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: age, awe, gae, wae, wag.

-2 letters: ae, ag, aw, we.

+1 letter: swage, waged, wager, wages.

+2 letters: aweigh, aweing, cowage, earwig, gawked, gawker, gawped, gawper, gawsie, geegaw, gewgaw, gnawed, gnawer, sewage, swaged, swager, swages, towage, wagers, wagged, wagger, waggle, wangle.

+3 letters: asswage, brewage, cowages, cowhage, dowager, earwigs, flowage, gateway, gawkers, gawkier, gawkies, gawpers, geegaws, getaway, gewgaws, gnawers, gowaned, gunwale, pawnage, ragweed, sewages, stowage, swagers, swagged, swagger, swaggie, swagmen, towages, twanged, twanger, twangle, waftage, wagered, wagerer, waggers, waggery, waggled, waggles, wagoned, wagoner, wagsome, wangled, wangler, wangles, wantage, warpage, wastage, wattage, weaning, wearing, weaving, weigela, whanged, whangee, windage, wordage, wrangle.

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