Pay vs. Wage
Payverb
(transitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
Payverb
(ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
Payverb
(transitive) To be profitable for.
Payverb
(transitive) To give (something else than money).
Payverb
(intransitive) To be profitable or worth the effort.
Payverb
(intransitive) To discharge an obligation or debt.
Payverb
(intransitive) To suffer consequences.
Payverb
(transitive) To admit that a joke, punchline, etc., was funny.
Payverb
To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Paynoun
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
Payadjective
Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Payadjective
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
Payverb
To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
Payverb
To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
Payverb
Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
Payverb
To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
Payverb
To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
Payverb
To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
Payverb
To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
Payverb
Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
Paynoun
Satisfaction; content.
Paynoun
An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
Paynoun
something that remunerates;
Payverb
give money, usually in exchange for goods or services;
Payverb
convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow;
Payverb
do or give something to somebody in return;
Payverb
bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action;
Payverb
cancel or discharge a debt;
Payverb
bring in;
Payverb
render;
Payverb
be worth it;
Payverb
dedicate;
Payverb
discharge or settle;
Payverb
make a compensation for;
Wagenoun
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.
Wageverb
To wager, bet.
Wageverb
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
Wageverb
To employ for wages; to hire.
Wageverb
(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
Wageverb
(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
Wageverb
To give security for the performance of.
Wageverb
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
Wageverb
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
Wageverb
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
Wageverb
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
Wageverb
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
Wageverb
To give security for the performance of.
Wageverb
To bind one's self; to engage.
Wagenoun
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
Wagenoun
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
Wagenoun
something that remunerates;
Wageverb
as of wars, battles, or campaigns;
Wage
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).
