Wage vs. Wages — What's the Difference?

A wage is the distribution from an employer of a security (expected return or profits derived solely from others) paid to an employee. Like interest is paid out to an investor on his investments, a wage is paid (from company earnings) to the employee on the employee's invested assets (time, money, labor, resources, and thought).

A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.

A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.

Wages The price of labor in an economy.

Wages The price of labor in an economy.

Often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense

Often wages (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense

To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

Plural of wage. It may take a singular verb. E.g. 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6:23 KJV)

(often in 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.

One's total income for a time period

To wager, bet.

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.

To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing;

To employ for wages; to hire.

(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).

(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

To give security for the performance of

To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

To give security for the performance of.

To bind one's self; to engage.

That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

Something that remunerates;

As of wars, battles, or campaigns;