Wages is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WAGES in dictionary:

VERB:
• WAGE, to engage in or carry on
• carry on (a war or campaign)
NOUN:
• a fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis
• the part of total production that is the return to labour as earned income as distinct from the remuneration received by capital as unearned income.
• the result or effect of doing something considered wrong or unwise
• A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.
• a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

Words related to WAGES

solde6 wage8 waged10 waging11

Words that contain WAGES

swages10 cowages13 sewages11 towages11 asswages12 brewages14 flowages15 stowages12 strewages13

How to use WAGES in a sentence

• Boys and girls were pressed into service, wages were cut down for women, hours lengthened for men.
• Wages perform their material share in spurring the worker.
• It was thought that as soon as the first demand for labor was supplied wages would be reduced, for no new plantations could be opened there as in a growing country like Liberia.
• We found that labor could buy back with its wages only so much of the product, and that capital did not consume all of the remainder of the product.
• The former would of course offer higher wages than the latter, for so sudden was the step there could be no common understanding on the point.
• The rate of wages fixed upon in Antigua may be seen by a reference to the Journal of Thome and Kimball to be very inadequate to the wants of the laborer.
• After that, from the way she talked, I guess she stayed around there until she could go some place and get wages for her work.
• Not only did wages increase and the hours of labor grow shorter between 1840 and 1860, but the field of labor was enormously expanded.
• They have met with employers in trade conferences where an error in statement or a hasty word might mean a cut in wages or an increase in hours for two years to come.
• The greater part of the high wages which servants get is spent on dress.
• In the meantime Solomon hired himself to some fishermen in a distant country, his wages being two fishes each day.
• For the rest of the year they were free labourers, tending cattle or sheep on the common for wages or working at the various crafts usual in the village.
• We have also seen that the statutes regulating wages were of little effect, and they went on rising, so that more land was laid down to grass.
• Humanity, in order to bear its burdens, needs to believe that it is not paid entirely by wages.
• And a small group of such thrifty workers in any overcrowded industry will permanently lower the wages of that industry.
• The Victorian fellows say it was this same concern that first cut wages down their way.
• When he stopped from the wet, and there was no work in the barns, his wages were stopped.
• Food was very dear, and, though they were receiving nearly double wages to carry half-loads, they must needs be careful.
• The one fixed idea of the workmen of Paris was that work entitled them to something more than wages.
• And not from any other cook as long as you pay the perfectly miserable wages you do at present.
• It is a hardship for the Oriental to serve Europeans, and only the much higher and more certain wages bring him to it.
• They worked their servants without any wages, till they could not work any more, and then quarrelled with them and turned them out of doors without paying them.
• That I have regularly received the liberal wages he agreed to give me from the first of my coming to him.
• The schedule of wages, as established by the commissioners, was read and explained.
• News had reached their villages that work at great wages was to be had in this country.
• For when a lot of wit and rhyme Appears upon our pages, I know too well my men in time Will ask a raise in wages.
• The working force would be paid the market rate of wages.
• This sum she would be less able to pay than the average American woman ten times as much, so low are wages in that country.
• Equally important is it to declare as a fixed principle that wages are to be and must be continuously raised, never lowered.
• Women servants received ten shillings a year wages, and an allowance of four shillings additional for clothing.

Similar words containing WAGE without suffix s

wage8 swage9 waged10 wager9 cowage12 sewage10 swaged11 swager10 swages10 towage10 wagers10 asswage11 brewage13 cowages13 dowager12 flowage14 nonwage11 sewages11 stowage11 swagers11 towages11 unwaged12 wagered12 wagerer11 asswaged13 asswages12 brewages14 dowagers13 flowages15 stowages12 strewage12 tasswage12 wageless12 wagerers12 wagering13 strewages13 wagenboom17 wagerings14 wagenbooms18 wageworker21 wageworkers22 wagelessness16 wagelessnesses18

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