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Example sentences for "wage"

Lexicographically close words:
wafting; wafts; wafture; wag; waga; waged; wagen; wager; wagered; wagering
  1. Thus the formula v + s only expresses, as it were, the intimate relationship between capital and labour, the social function of wage labour, and in the actual product this is completely wiped out.

  2. Wage and price thus are directly related, they balance each other.

  3. He overlooked the fact that c as the first link in the formula c + v + s is the essential expression of the general social foundation of exploitation of wage labour by capital.

  4. This endeavour leads to the most peculiar combinations between the modern wage system and primitive authority in the colonial countries.

  5. The most obvious inference from Rodbertus' monomania about a 'fixed wage rate' is that he is quite incapable of understanding capitalist accumulation.

  6. All these categories are cast off by the capitalist system of production in some form or other, they constitute a wage proletariat that is worn out and made redundant one way or another.

  7. He grafts Ricardo's hypothesis on to 'society in its real organisation, with unpropertied workers whose wage is fixed by competition and who can be dismissed the moment their master has no further need of their work .

  8. In volume iii, Marx says quite explicitly, when demonstrating the process of capitalist production as a whole: 'Let us suppose that the whole society is composed only of industrial capitalists and wage workers.

  9. Under capitalist forms of production, the value of the aggregate social product is divided into three parts: one corresponding to the value of the constant capital, the second to the wage total, i.

  10. An indispensable condition for this is an average wage which is adequate not only to the reproduction of the working population but permits its continual increase' (Theorien ueber den Mehrwert, vol.

  11. For three years the British army was forced to wage a guerilla warfare, and adapt itself to entirely new methods of campaigning.

  12. We'n getten money laid by; and we're resolved to stand and fall together; not a man on us will go in for less wage than th' Union says is our due.

  13. His main thought is the amount of the wage to be received.

  14. The evolution of the community kitchen is going to be of interest to every housewife and to every wage earner in all classes of society.

  15. The Job Lady has established a minimum wage of four dollars a week.

  16. He is without a care and his only thought, if he has one, is to obtain as high a wage as possible.

  17. Back she came to St. Louis with the spirit of the Crusaders, her vision "the eight-hour day, the living wage to guard the home.

  18. This informal minimum-wage law results in a raising of the standard of payment in a shop.

  19. All of which is a preface to the statement that the Pullman Company, like any other large user of labor, regulates its wage scale by supply and demand.

  20. The average wage of the shoe-workers in the East is $550 per year.

  21. I guess you'd rather double my wage than have that yarn goin' about.

  22. This left him somewhat short of the maid's wage of three dollars for cooking and serving dinner and washing up the dishes.

  23. It took a poet to bestow a wage out of all proportion to the workday, to turn the cheek of humility to the blows of arrogance, to commend the extravagant gift of the magdalene.

  24. Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee; Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

  25. Thou art all anarchy; a mob of joys Wage war, and perish in intestine broils; Not the least promise of internal peace!

  26. I have lost my dear husband, but I have escaped from that prison-house; and with his memory to keep me merciless, I am eager to wage war against those influences which are conspiring to fetter the free-born soul and stifle spontaneity.

  27. The majority, however, would stand by him, irrespective of the large wage offered, because the issue was one to appeal to the pride of the Bend farmers.

  28. War is a terrible business, but men don't wage it for motives such as yours.

  29. The Crows, their neighbours, are much fewer in number, but for all that oppose them in the field and wage the most sanguinary wars with them.

  30. That frown most defiant Will not make me pliant, I've pledged myself firmly to wage with thee war.

  31. The higher wage of men springs, economically, from the fact that the industrial output of women is, normally, less than that of men.

  32. V Another disastrous blunder of Feminism is to make for equal wage for men and women.

  33. There is the implication also that man being the natural breadwinner of the family, his wage should suffice for its support.

  34. Can you imagine how much money one of them aviators over in the old country ought to draw under such a wage scale?

  35. His first view, therefore, was that the Two Sicilies should wage their quarrel with the French by forming a base for the British, the only one of the great Powers left uncrippled in the war with the all-devouring Republic.

  36. QUINN--I fancy he wouldn't lead far, if his wage stopped.

  37. Mrs. Martin says he gets a princely wage for orderin' strikes all over the country.

  38. We may put their average wage at nine shillings a week.

  39. How can a man or woman engaged in such labour for ten hours a day at subsistence wage enjoy a fully developed life?

  40. He named a wage that would have been ridiculous if it had not been so pathetic.

  41. How much over his month's wage would that green basket piled high with exotic fruit come to?

  42. He has distinctly declared that we shall not have law to establish a minimum wage for women.

  43. But there is no difficulty in finding the right phrase for his address to the inhabitants of Warsaw: "We wage war only against hostile troops, not against peaceful citizens.

  44. Though silenced by public authority, they did not, therefore, cease to wage a war of extermination against antichrist.

  45. Peter had nothing but the wage he earned working on the C.

  46. She did not know that marriage is a challenge to Nature, and that, when one has thrown down the gauntlet to Nature, it is only to be expected that she will arise and begin valiantly to wage the combat which one has provoked.

  47. One is drenched with the blood of life, worn out by the struggle we have to wage with art.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    compensation; conduct; earnings; employ; exercise; follow; hire; income; livelihood; pay; payment; payroll; practice; prosecute; pursue; remuneration; salary; tackle; undertake; use; wage


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wage earners; wage labor; wages paid; wages were; wages will