- 1. n. A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. Source: opted
- 2. n. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing Source: wordnet
- 3. A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account. Encyc. Brit. Syn. -- See under Wage, n. Source: webster
- 4. A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paidfor labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23.Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any timein any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to bepaid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other politicaleconomists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any timedepended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number oflaborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery ofother conditions affecting wages, which it does not take intoaccount. Encyc. Brit. Source: adambom
- 5. n. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing Source: ecdict
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