Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wages"

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).

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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wages
n : a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing;
"the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
[syn: {reward}, {payoff}]


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