as in salary
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
the wage you earn is more than enough to support us comfortably
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Recent Examples of wages
The right-back still desires a fresh challenge, having wanted to leave during the summer, and getting his significant wages off the books would be beneficial.
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Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
The result will be potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in direct local revenue from the projects themselves, and even more money in direct and indirect economic benefits to the people of the county (through better jobs, higher wages, greater private investment and so on).
—Tom Quirk, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
Take, for example, a grocery store worker who makes $30,000 annually and a restaurant server making $10,000 in hourly wages and $20,000 in tips.
—Matthew Glowicki, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
About 180,000 people work in New York’s fashion industry, which amounts to nearly $11 billion in total wages.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Types of income tax Individual income tax, also called personal income tax, is placed on a person's wages, salary and other forms of income.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
Job openings rose to historic levels, unemployment fell to its lowest point since the late 1960s and wages grew at their fastest pace in decades as businesses competed for talent.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
Drivers who didn't want to — or couldn't figure out how to — access their Branch accounts, the lawsuit says, would lose their Walmart delivery work and often the wages that had been deposited to those Branch accounts, too.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
On the first offence, they will be fined 10 per cent of their weekly wages, with an increase of 10 per cent following every subsequent occurrence.
—Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
The result will be potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in direct local revenue from the projects themselves, and even more money in direct and indirect economic benefits to the people of the county (through better jobs, higher wages, greater private investment and so on).
—Tom Quirk, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
Take, for example, a grocery store worker who makes $30,000 annually and a restaurant server making $10,000 in hourly wages and $20,000 in tips.
—Matthew Glowicki, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
About 180,000 people work in New York’s fashion industry, which amounts to nearly $11 billion in total wages.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Types of income tax Individual income tax, also called personal income tax, is placed on a person's wages, salary and other forms of income.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
Job openings rose to historic levels, unemployment fell to its lowest point since the late 1960s and wages grew at their fastest pace in decades as businesses competed for talent.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
Drivers who didn't want to — or couldn't figure out how to — access their Branch accounts, the lawsuit says, would lose their Walmart delivery work and often the wages that had been deposited to those Branch accounts, too.
—Alina Selyukh, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
On the first offence, they will be fined 10 per cent of their weekly wages, with an increase of 10 per cent following every subsequent occurrence.
—Charlotte Harpur, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wages
Noun
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On the other hand, the club also intends to bring salaries and fees down to a more sustainable level.—
Manuel Veth,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Raise salaries, diminish contractual obligations to teach, include the expenses of laboratory instruction and add the depreciation of expensive buildings — all factors in the sciences — and tuition becomes wholly inadequate to cover even the cost of instruction.—
Clifford Ando,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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In the four years since NIL payments began in 2021, collectives affiliated with specific schools have made hundreds of millions in deals with athletes just like those the CSC described in its examples.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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More: Car buyers set a record with more than $1,000-a-month car payments in Q2 Jamie L. LaReau is the senior autos writer who covers Ford Motor Co. for the Detroit Free Press.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
Freep.com,
12 July 2025
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“Wages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wages. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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