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wages

NOUN
payment for work
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Weeks after the April layoffs, Lee got her first unemployment check for $270 after taxes, calculated in South Carolina based on wages.

From The Wall Street Journal

The BOJ governor expressed confidence in the country’s wage-price dynamics, noting that “the likelihood of Japan’s economy returning to a so-called zero-norm state, in which wages and prices hardly change, seems to have decreased considerably.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Department of Education will begin garnishing wages from approximately 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers early next year.

From Barron's

The Education Department said Tuesday that it will resume garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default starting early next year.

From The Wall Street Journal

In English football, clubs are able to fine a player up to two weeks' wages for a misdemeanour.

From BBC