Read full poem →And scorned to tread the mire you must:
Dust's your wages, son of sorrow,
But men may come to worse than dust.
Dictionary Entry
(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.
In a Sentence
“Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wagespaid wageswages realwages higherwages lowwages minimum
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Poetry examples for “wages”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Read full poem →O St. John, with chains for thy wages,
Strong thy rock where the storm-blast rages,
Read full poem →to live lazily their own lives, rather than labor for the
miserable pittance of daily wages.
Read full poem →That wages war against the brave and wise,
Read full poem →The flash and thunder of front pages!
And the gulled millions stare and fling their wages
Where they are bidden, helpless and emasculate.
Read full poem →I think of him as I should think
Of one who for scant wages played,
And faintly, a flawed instrument
Read full poem →And sons of labour light their pipes, and come
To talk of wages, whether high or low,
And mumble news that still as secrets go;
Read full poem →to an open and infamous death? To banish that numerous and strongly
allied family? To do all this under the name and wages of a parliament?
To trample upon them, too, as he pleased, and spurn them out of doors
Read full poem →[Footnote 130: _Wad my hail fee_--Bet my whole wages.]