Meaning

1 senses

  1. (often, 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.

    Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.

    Lohn, Arbeitsentgelt

    за́работная пла́таzárabotnaja pláta, зарпла́таzarpláta, за́работокzárabotok

    заробі́тна пла́таzarobítna pláta, зарпла́таzarpláta, запла́таzapláta

More definitions
  • something that remunerates

Examples

240 sentences

  1. Tom makes minimum wage.

    Том отримує мінімальну зарплатню.

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  2. They're now making minimum wage.

    Зараз вони отримують мінімальну зарплатню.

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  3. Would you work for minimum wage?

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  4. What's the minimum wage in Australia?

    Яка мінімальна зарплатня в Австралії?

    ruКакая в Австралии минимальная зарплата?

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  5. I've been working for minimum wage.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
money paid to a worker:
Русский
By meaning 1
money paid to a worker:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
money paid to a worker:

Origin

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a norther

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.

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Forms

plural: wages
Singularwage
Pluralwages

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
earningsB2payA1salaryB2
Close in meaning

Word family

45 related words
Derivedboard wagefamily wagehangman's wageshourly wageliving wagelost wagesmaximum wageminimum wagenonwageslave wagestarvation wagetime wagewage billwage creditwagecuckwagedomwage driftwage earnerwage-fund doctrinewage laborwage laborerwage labourwage labourerwageless

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

3 patterns
  • minimum wage
  • the minimum wage
  • for minimum wage

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
waftwagwagerwaggle
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