wages

Questions about wages

What does wages mean?

wages means "a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing".

How many syllables are in wages?

wages has 2 syllables: wa-ges. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪdʒəz/.

What is another word for wages?

Close synonyms include reward, payoff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wages a common word?

wages is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wages come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.