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wages
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment for work |
| Synonyms: | compensation, earnings, hire, income, pay, salary |
| Main Entry: | wage/wages |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings for work |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon and eggs, bacon, bread, compensation, cut, emolument, fee, hire, pay, payment, price, receipts, recompense, remuneration, return, returns, reward, salary, share, stipend, sugar*, take*, take-home |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acquisition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something obtained, received |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, allowance, annuity, award, benefit, bonus, commission, dividend, donation, earnings, fortune, gain, gift, grant, income, increment, inheritance, net, premium, prize, proceeds, profit, remuneration, return, reward, riches, salary, security, wages, wealth, winnings |
| Notes: | acquisition is a material possession while an acquirement is a personal skill or knowledge that one gains |
| Main Entry: | earnings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for work performed |
| Synonyms: | balance, bottom line, emolument, gain, gate, groceries, in the black, income, lucre, net, pay, payoff, piece of the pie, proceeds, profit, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, reward, salary, salt, stipend, take-home, takings, wages |
| Antonyms: | bills, debt, losses, payout |
| Main Entry: | price |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial value |
| Synonyms: | amount, appraisal, appraisement, asking price, assessment, barter, bill, bounty, ceiling, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, damage, demand, disbursement, discount, dues, estimate, exaction, expenditure, expense, face value, fare, fee, figure, hire, outlay, output, pay, payment, premium, prize, quotation, ransom, rate, reckoning, retail, return, reward, score, sticker, tab, tariff, ticket, toll, tune*, valuation, wages, wholesale, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recompense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something returned, paid back |
| Synonyms: | amends, atonement, bus fare, compensation, cue, damages, emolument, expiation, gravy, indemnification, indemnity, overcompensation, pay, payment, propitiation, quittance, recoupment, recovery, redemption, redress, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, retrieval, retrievement, return, reward, salvo, satisfaction, solatium, sweetener, tip, wages |
| Antonyms: | take |
| Main Entry: | revenue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | income, profit |
| Synonyms: | acquirement, annuity, bottom line, cash flow, credit, dividend, earnings, emolument, fruits, fund, gain, gate*, get*, gravy, handle*, interest, means, net, pay, payoff, perquisite, proceeds, receipt, resources, return, reward, salary, split*, stock, strength, take*, takings, wages, wealth, yield |
| Antonyms: | debt, payment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment, prize |
| Synonyms: | accolade, award, benefit, bonus, bounty, carrot, comeuppance, compensation, crown*, cue, dividend, feather in cap, fringe benefit, gain, garland, goodies, gravy, grease, guerdon, honor, just deserts, meed, merit, perks, plum, premium, profit, punishment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, return, salve, strokes, sweetener, tip, wages |
| Notes: | an award is something awarded or granted, as for merit; a reward is something given or received in recompense for worthy behavior or in retribution for evil acts |
| Antonyms: | penalty, punishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter, bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal |
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