wages

wages
index compensation, earnings, income, pay, payroll, revenue

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


wages
Compensation that a worker receives in exchange for labor.
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.

wages
Any sums payable to a worker in connection with employment. This can include salary, holiday pay, bonus, commission, statutory maternity pay, statutory sick pay etc., but specifically excludes payments by way of an advance of wages or loans, expenses, pensions or gratuities in connection with retirement or as compensation for loss of office, and redundancy payments. Non-payment of wages may give rise to a claim for unlawful deductions under ERA 1996.
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  • Wages — Wa ges (w[=a] j[e^]z), n. plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See {Wage}, n.] 1. A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • wages — 1》 a fixed regular payment for work, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis. → wage wages Economics the part of total production that is the return to labour as earned income as distinct from the remuneration received by capital as unearned… …   English new terms dictionary

  • wages — UK US /ˈweɪdʒɪz/ noun [plural] HR, WORKPLACE ► WAGE(Cf. ↑wage) …   Financial and business terms

  • wages — Compensation for manual labor, skilled or unskilled, paid at stated times, and measured by the day, week, month, or season. Sums paid as hire or reward to domestic or menial servants, artisans, mechanics, laborers, and other employees of like… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • wages — A compensation given to a hired person for his or her services. Compensation of employees based on time worked or output of production. Every form of remuneration payable for a given period to an individual for personal services, including… …   Black's law dictionary

  • wages — noun a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing (Freq. 2) the wages of sin is death virtue is its own reward • Syn: ↑reward, ↑payoff • Derivationally related forms: ↑reward ( …   Useful english dictionary

  • wages — wage, wages Wages is normally used in the plural (Their wages are still too low); an older singular construction survives only in the biblical line For the wages of sinne is death (Romans 6:23). But wage is also used (What sort of wage are you… …   Modern English usage

  • wages — n. 1) see wageI 2) starvation wages * * * see wage I starvation wages …   Combinatory dictionary

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