the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

(Economics) 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, a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing, plural one's total income for a time period, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wage

Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis, The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person periodically for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, half-year, or quarter. See wages, A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy, verb_ To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation, transitive verb_ To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to, adjective_ obsolete Saline