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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a wages" is not correct in written English.
"Wages" is a plural noun and should not be preceded by the article "a."
Example: "The workers were pleased with their wages this month."
Alternatives: "the wages" or "wage amount".
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And there is also a wages issue.
Father a wages clerk at C & A, mother a typist.
First were the warnings of a "wages breakout".
"(A) wages, salaries, or commissions, including vacation, severance, and sick leave pay earned by an individual ….
No one with any sense is worrying about a wages breakout now.
He noted that almost all Arise workers were freelance and claimed to have uncovered a wages scam.
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There is increasing conviction, accompanied by categorical denials from ministers, that, the Govt. will be forced to clamp down a wages-and-prices freeze before long.
He paid her a wage.
'(a) Wage payments..
The educated get a wage premium.
Higher inflation might prompt a wage spiral.
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