Definition of wage
1 a
: a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis
—often used in plural
b
wages plural
: the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production
2
: recompense, reward
—usually used in pl. but singular or plural in construction
- the wages of sin is death
- —Romans 6:23 (Revised Standard Version)
