Definition
B1 a fixed amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a college education: a very low/high wage an hourly/daily/weekly/annual wage He gets/earns/is paid a good wage, because he works for a fair employer. The smaller shops pay very low wages. → Compare income, salaryEarning money and money earned
(Definition of wage noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bank verb (MONEY)
- danger money noun
- double-dip verb
- draw verb (MONEY)
- earn verb
- earnings noun
- easy money noun
- feather your own nest idiom
- fundraising noun
- hourly adjective
- OTE noun
- paved with gold idiom
- pocket money noun (CHILD'S MONEY)
- professionally adverb
- remuneration noun
- scrape a living idiom
- stipend noun
- stoppage noun (MONEY)
- strike pay noun
- unearned adjective
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