as in salary
often wages plural
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
the wage you earn is more than enough to support us comfortably
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Recent Examples of wage
The deficit impacted the city’s general purposes fund, which mostly pays for wages and day-to-day operations.
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
The obscene cost of healthcare has pushed manufacturers offshore and kept wages stagnant for decades.
—Ro Khanna, Twin Cities, 12 June 2025
Zooming out further, the longtime executive also cited Friday’s nonfarm payroll numbers , which indicated that overall job and real wage gains were both better than feared in May.
—Morgan Chittum,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 11 June 2025
Offering their knowledge of the area and their readiness to work for wages, these men and women convinced Gen. Benjamin Butler to hire them.
—Zaakir Tameez
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
The obscene cost of healthcare has pushed manufacturers offshore and kept wages stagnant for decades.
—Ro Khanna, Twin Cities, 12 June 2025
Zooming out further, the longtime executive also cited Friday’s nonfarm payroll numbers , which indicated that overall job and real wage gains were both better than feared in May.
—Morgan Chittum,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 11 June 2025
Offering their knowledge of the area and their readiness to work for wages, these men and women convinced Gen. Benjamin Butler to hire them.
—Zaakir Tameez
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for wage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage
salary
Noun
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The two have grown close in the months since Fried signed an eight-year, $218 million deal with the Yankees, which slightly bested Rodón’s $27 million average annual salary.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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Currently, City Council members’ and the mayor’s salaries are determined by the four-member Salary Setting Commission, which operates independently.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
7 June 2025
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“Wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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