What's the difference between quarterage and wage?

Quarterage


Definition:

  • (n.) A quarterly allowance.

Example Sentences:

Wage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
  • (v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
  • (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
  • (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
  • (v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
  • (v. t.) To give security for the performance of.
  • (v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage.
  • (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
  • (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (2) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (3) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (4) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
  • (5) Although the unemployment rate is 4.8%, it can come down further without wage inflation starting to rise.
  • (6) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
  • (7) But I hope 2015 will see the wage increases I expected to see this year.
  • (8) "While it seems possible that more will join the two MPC dissenters in coming months if wage growth picks up, it looks a long way to go before a majority on the MPC vote to raise interest rates," he said.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
  • (10) In more than 30 years of elections, ruling parties have lost when real wages are falling and an opposition party only won once, in 1997, when real wages were rising.
  • (11) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
  • (12) On his personal website, Miliband talks about the importance of the national minimum wage.
  • (13) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
  • (14) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
  • (15) Oregon’s governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years, and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
  • (16) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
  • (17) Around 70,000 people currently receive the minimum wage in Scotland.
  • (18) So we were proud in 1997 to put forward the case for Britain’s first minimum wage.
  • (19) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
  • (20) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.

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