wage

[ weyj ]

/ weɪdʒ /

noun

Often wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.

Usually wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).

Usually wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return: The wages of sin is death.

Obsolete. a pledge or security.

verb (used with object), waged, wag·ing.

to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation.

Chiefly British Dialect. to hire.

Obsolete.

to stake or wager.
to pledge.

verb (used without object), waged, wag·ing.

Obsolete. to contend; struggle.

Origin of wage

1275–1325; (noun) Middle English: pledge, security < Anglo-French; Old French guage gage¹ < Vulgar Latin *wadium < Germanic (see wed); (v.) Middle English wagen to pledge < Anglo-French wagier; Old French guagier < Vulgar Latin *wadiāre, derivative of *wadium

SYNONYMS FOR wage

1 earnings, emolument, compensation, remuneration. See pay¹.

5 undertake, prosecute.

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OTHER WORDS FROM wage

wage·less, adjective wage·less·ness, noun un·der·wage, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH wage

salary wages

Words nearby wage

waft, waftage, wafter, wafture, wag, wage, wage determination, wage differential, wage earner, wage incentive, wage scale

Example sentences from the Web for wage

The wage structure of waiting tables is a sexual-harassment machine.

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Not only do dancers not get an hourly wage, they are usually forced to pay ‘stage fees’ to work each shift.

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In Scotland, hourly wage inequality matches the rest of the United Kingdom once the skew of London is factored out.

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It is time to wage campaigns based on competing ideas, values, and proposals.

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The wage gave Clara and her women friends a measure of independence—on a day off they could pretty much do as they liked.

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It was reserved for Rationalism to accept and harmonise the double truth, and to wage war against both infallibilities.

The Book Of God |G. W. Foote
So I figger we can get several wagon-loads of "Wage of Sin" at fifty cents per volume.'

Kilo |Ellis Parker Butler
If he could work without food his wage would be reduced to the vanishing point.

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So I take my wage le maître he give, and exchange for the traps.

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Wage rates to be periodically revised to correspond with variations in the cost of living.

Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII |Various

British Dictionary definitions for wage

wage

/ (weɪdʒ) /

noun

(often plural) payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basisCompare salary
(as modifier)wage freeze

(plural) economics the portion of the national income accruing to labour as earned income, as contrasted with the unearned income accruing to capital in the form of rent, interest, and dividends

(often plural) recompense, return, or yield

an obsolete word for pledge

verb (tr)

to engage in

obsolete to pledge or wager

archaic another word for hire (def. 1), hire (def. 2)

Derived forms of wage

wageless, adjective wagelessness, noun

Word Origin for wage

C14: from Old Northern French wagier to pledge, from wage, of Germanic origin; compare Old English weddian to pledge, wed

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verb (used with object), waged, wag·ing.

verb (used without object), waged, wag·ing.

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wage

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verb (used with object), waged, wag·ing.

verb (used without object), waged, wag·ing.

Origin of wage

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OTHER WORDS FROM wage

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH wage

Words nearby wage

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