Converse of object

• earn: You will learn valuable skills for the trade of your choice whilst earning a wage.

• pay: I cannot say whether wives working in family businesses were paid a wage or given a share of the takings for their personal use.

Adjective modifier

• minimum: The minimum wage had minimal impact on the pay of UNISON members.

• decent: All of us agreed that we needed to fight for a decent wage that we could live on.

• hourly: On average, Pakistani and Bangladeshi women earn only 56 per cent of the average hourly wage of White men.

• average: The average wage is usually at least $ 1,000 to $ 1,500.

• weekly: He soon became a molder, like his father, and by 1862 his weekly wage had increased to a sovereign.

• low: Servants often worked eighteen hours a day with only half a day off once a week, for very low wages.

Modifies a noun

• earner: Henry's death hit his parents hard as he was the only wage earner in the family.

• packet: This trip was paid for out of their own wage packets.

• inflation: The level of wage inflation, which has been low, will be reassessed at the start of 2006.

• bill: How can we keep buying players, we should be reducing the wage bill.

• slavery: Leave aside the socialist future and the abolition of wage slavery.

• differential: We have revisited this in the light of the new ONS methodology and more recent information about the impact on wage differentials.

Noun used with modifier

• worker's: It also means debating the issue of an elected representative on a worker's wage.

• starvation: They have no money for their transportation, for they are receiving starvation wages or no wages, at all.

Possessives

• laborer: A laborer's wages 0 0 10 " A master mason or tyler 0 1 2 " 1617.

Preposition: in

• lieu: The contract also said that his employers could pay him wages in lieu of notice.

Preposition: of

• sin: The wages of sin is always death - sooner or later.