Word Finder - wage

definition

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

example

Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.

If you are a wage earner, then you should love machines.

The first strike, which was for an eight-hour day and $3.00 wage, was won by the miners.

It has increased our desire for peace and our unwillingness to wage war.

They wage war because it is the only language they speak.

The country requires a minimum wage because workers paid below the poverty line have an added cost on society.

The Code fixed him a wage.

The early margraves had permitted the Florentines to wage war against the Alberti family, whose castles they destroyed.

Betsy Morganthaw, my fiancée, was employed by a public relations firm at a wage half again as much as her future husband.

Most child laborers can be considered to be wage slaves.

He said the government had put in money to pay off some of the workers ' wage arrears.

How can we keep buying players, we should be reducing the wage bill.

Having paid the rent, nine shillings remained from William's weekly wage to provide a minimum subsistence.

Ashley did not pay the trappers a fixed wage.

It is totally untrue that wage checks have not always been honored.

You will learn valuable skills for the trade of your choice whilst earning a wage.

I cannot say whether wives working in family businesses were paid a wage or given a share of the takings for their personal use.

All of us agreed that we needed to fight for a decent wage that we could live on.

On average, Pakistani and Bangladeshi women earn only 56 per cent of the average hourly wage of White men.

He soon became a molder, like his father, and by 1862 his weekly wage had increased to a sovereign.

It also means debating the issue of an elected representative on a worker's wage.

In United States, more than two thirds of the families now have two wage earners.

In Scotland only 57% of households said they would be prepared if the main wage earner were to be made redundant.

Tax rates on low wage earners have been falling.

At present they pay a higher percentage of their earnings in National Insurance contributions than the above average wage earner.

Mr Harlowe being the higher wage earner paid all the mortgage installments and refurbishment costs to the property.

They are mostly unorganized daily wage earners, who gather at the mill gates every morning.

The only wage earner in the family is eldest Michael, who contributes £ 20 a week from his factory job.

The wage earner person 's life form is, as indicated by the term, tied to being a wage earner person 's life form is, as indicated by the term, tied to being a wage earner.

He will go on to wage unrestricted warfare against all who oppose him.

The loss of these two arsenals seriously weakened the Chinese capacity to wage war.

Cattle were hired for ploughing, working the watering-machines, carting, threshing, etc. The Code fixed a statutory wage for sowers, ox-drivers, field-labourers, and hire for oxen, asses, &c.

And in January 1902, reversing the policy which had its inception in the encyclical, Rerum novarum, of 1891, and had further been developed ten years later in a letter to the Italian bishops entitled Graves de communi, the "Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs" issued instructions concerning "Christian Democracy in Italy," directing that the popular Christian movement, which embraced in its programme a number of social reforms, such as factory laws for children, old-age pensions, a minimum wage in agricultural industries, an eight-hours' day, the revival of trade gilds, and the encouragement of Sunday rest, should divert its attention from all such things as savoured of novelty and devote its energies to the restoration of the temporal power.

Among the many reforms introduced under his guidance were a workmen's compensation law; a survey of occupational diseases with recommendations for health insurance; the elimination of the sweatshop; the establishment of a state industrial commission for dealing with questions of labour and capital; the provision of a minimum wage and a nine-hour day for women; mothers' pensions; ratification of the proposed woman suffrage amendment; the budget system for state expenditures; pure food laws; a " blue sky " law for protecting investors from unscrupulous promoters; the initiative and referendum; a Corrupt Practices Act; the indeterminate sentence for convicts; improvement of rural schools; the establishment of a state tuberculosis hospital and the extension of safety devices on railways and in mines.

As the world grows richer, people will care more about how their food is made, how the animals are treated, whether the laborer who picked the food is paid a living wage.

It 's not surprising Gordon Brown is calling for wage restraint from public sector workers.

Recruitment of migrant workers has thus been acting as a safety valve against excessive wage pressure in the jobs market.

Rigid norms for wage growth cannot last indefinitely, tho they can help for a shortish time during disinflation.

In Sweden the Social Wage is claimable by all, it therefore needs no Kafka-esque snooping system and thereby practically pays for itself.

The above sociopolitical context provides a backdrop to an understanding of the wage disclosures in company annual reports.

Having paid the rent, nine shillings remained from William 's weekly wage to provide a minimum subsistence.

Mankiw has had an abiding intellectual fascination with A W Phillips '1958 postulation of a trade-off between wage inflation and unemployment.

I understand the blight of the waiter 's wage, but this unprofessional practice should be stopped.

However, it's unrealistic to assume only the United States will have the capabilities to wage such warfare.

Henry 's death hit his parents hard as he was the only wage earner in the family.

This trip was paid for out of their own wage packets.

We have revisited this in the light of the new ONS methodology and more recent information about the impact on wage differentials.

The wage earner person 's life form is, as indicated by the term, tied to being a wage earner.

To offset the anemic wage growth in my day job, I've started earning extra money cleaning houses on the weekends.

Lastly, every family will have to evaluate at the birth of each child whether the cost of childcare weighed against the wage received is significant.

There is also a real decline in the average wage earnings - approximately four percent - but not a decline in the expected standards of living.