Wages : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Wages	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wages n a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" Synonym(s): wages, reward, payoff
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wages \Wa"ges\, n. plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See {Wage}, n.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wager \Wa"ger\, n. {Wagering, [or] gambling}, {contract}. A contract which is of the nature of wager. Contracts of this nature include various common forms of valid commercial contracts, as contracts of insurance, contracts dealing in futures, options, etc. Other wagering contracts and bets are now generally made illegal by statute against betting and gambling, and wagering has in many cases been made a criminal offence. Wages \Wa"ges\, n. pl. (Theoretical Economics) The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Wages Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgements threatened against the withholding of (Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5; comp. James 5:4); paid in money (Matt. 20:1-14); to Jacob in kind (Gen. 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7, 8, 41).