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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wage
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a price/pay/wage freeze
a wage/pay/salary increase
▪ Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
command a high fee/wage/price etc
▪ Which graduates command the highest salaries?
earn a wage/salary
▪ You are more likely to earn a decent wage if you have a degree.
living wage
▪ jobs that don’t even pay a living wage
low income/pay/wages
▪ families existing on very low incomes
meagre income/earnings/wages etc
▪ He supplements his meager income by working on Saturdays.
minimum wage
▪ Most of the junior office staff are on the minimum wage being paid the lowest legal amount.
nominal wage
▪ If prices rise and the nominal wage remains constant, the real wage falls.
pay/wage cuts
▪ Millions of workers face pay cuts.
pay/wage/salary differential
price/income/wage levels
▪ Wage levels had failed to keep up with inflation.
price/wage inflation (=increasing prices/wages)
▪ Price inflation was running at about twelve percent last summer.
rent/price/wage etc controls
▪ Rent controls ensured that no one paid too much for housing.
run/wage/conduct a campaign (=carry out a campaign)
▪ He ran an aggressive campaign.
the wage rate
▪ What is the hourly wage rate?
wage earner
▪ He is the only wage earner in the family.
wage warfare
▪ Rebels waged guerrilla warfare against the occupying army.
wage/make war (=to start and continue a war)
▪ Their aim was to destroy the country’s capacity to wage war.
wage/pay bargaining
▪ The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ By this time professional cricketers' earnings had fallen behind average manual wages.
▪ Indeed average wages for non-supervisory workers are lower than they were under Ronald Reagan.
▪ The average factory wage is 40-70 baht a day.
▪ The workers' average wages would be $ 44,500 annually -- 54 percent higher than the county average of $ 28,900.
▪ In 1979 the link between state pensions and the average increase in wages was broken by the Government.
▪ The average wage of women workers is two-thirds that of men.
▪ It is doubly unfair because it hits thousands of workers who are earning less than the average industrial wage.
▪ This research used a national average wage to value voluntary labour.
high
▪ Thus a higher wage rate increases the supply of hours of work, but reduces the demand for hours of work.
▪ The overall effect of a higher minimum wage on employment and work hours therefore involves two offsetting forces.
▪ But it can also be found in the writings of Defoe, who favoured high wages as a stimulant for home demand.
▪ This group favors high minimum wages to lessen the competition from low-wage workers.
▪ What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry, especially through higher wages.
▪ The claim that higher minimum wages are inflationary and will create a loss of jobs is not substantiated either.
▪ Nearly 140,000 workers in 53 jute mills across West Bengal went on strike on Jan. 28 demanding higher wages.
▪ It was not because of labor, or high wages, or the Third World.
living
▪ Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
▪ They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.
low
▪ It rejected, in somewhat scathing terms, the owners' proposals for a combination of longer hours and lower wages.
▪ High costs, low wages and merciless poverty are the price that Third World people pay. 4.
▪ He says in some cases workers will have to accept lower wages to avoid redundancies.
▪ Workers who are laid off should quickly find reemployment by offering to work for lower wages.
▪ Unexpected overtime, low wages and complicated antisocial hours are features for many care assistants.
▪ Threatening to go abroad to lower wage costs certainly plays a role in lowering wages at home.
minimum
▪ In a surprise policy about turn the Government is to raise the minimum adult wage by 10p an hour to £ 3.70.
▪ Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the report proved that raising the minimum wage does not cost jobs.
▪ He has always received minimum wages and saving has been difficult.
▪ The White House sidestepped questions about linking the gas tax repeal with the minimum wage.
▪ We might deplore that, but it shows that the national minimum wage has harmed the most vulnerable people in that society.
▪ The typical minimum wage worker is a teenager from a middle-income family earning extra money for personal expenses.
▪ And we reject Labour's job-destroying notion of a national minimum wage.
▪ While economic theories disagree over the impacts of raising the minimum wage, so do some Tucson business people.
monthly
▪ Stars received 20 times the average monthly wage for one concert.
▪ It nearly doubled his monthly wage, from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.
▪ A further edict of Aug. 18 raised the monthly minimum wage from 4,000,000 intis to 16,000,000 intis.
national
▪ I shall not turn to the vexed question of the national minimum wage.
▪ As the national minimum wage was edged up, so the position altered.
▪ And we reject Labour's job-destroying notion of a national minimum wage.
▪ We might deplore that, but it shows that the national minimum wage has harmed the most vulnerable people in that society.
▪ The Government is planning to raise the national minimum wage from £3.70 to £4 an hour.
▪ They could spell the end of national wage agreements and the sinking of clinical grading before it has properly begun to swim.
weekly
▪ These values are not primarily the pursuit of small amounts of money paid in a weekly wage.
▪ Officials who packed private restaurants, where the bill for dinner exceeded their weekly wage, were plainly on the take.
▪ If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers.
▪ San Pablo was a small maquila with a history of low-paid outwork at weekly wages averaging 400 pesos.
▪ In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed.
▪ If you are paid a weekly wage, then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on.
▪ But between 1951 and 1962 juvenile weekly wages rose by 83 percent.
▪ His weekly wages at this time were £11.54!
■ NOUN
bill
▪ The wage bill for a certain week was £3537.50.
▪ In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.
▪ The firm says it simply can not find the cash to meet its wage bill.
▪ The club's wages bill was 4.7m.
▪ Pay increases alone could not achieve this without inflating the country's wage bill to an unacceptable level.
▪ Fears Meanwhile the bosses' wage bill is soaring.
▪ Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to drastically trim the Roker wage bill before launching into the transfer market.
▪ Critics suggest the wage bill element is excessive; the church authorities argue that they work with people through people.
claim
▪ In the summer of 1953 the union carried out strikes and go-slows in support of a wage claim, but were locked out.
▪ Mr Scargill urged the miners to prepare for battle: they must stand firm over their wage claim.
▪ The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.
▪ Meanwhile, trade unions became more active in their wage claims, and a vicious price-wage-price spiral developed.
costs
▪ In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster.
▪ Threatening to go abroad to lower wage costs certainly plays a role in lowering wages at home.
▪ But electrical contracting business fell 5%, despite lower wage costs.
▪ And that is just wage costs.
▪ The increase in manufacturing unit wage costs is at its lowest level since 1989 and is increasingly in line with Britain's main competitors.
▪ The introduction of labour-saving agricultural machinery to reduce wage costs began in earnest from the mid-nineteenth century.
▪ Also, job vacancies are rising, unit wage costs are falling and productivity is continuing to improve.
demand
▪ First, proposed increases in energy and payroll taxes could have a knock-on effect on wage demands and prices.
▪ Workers responded with higher wage demands.
▪ The threat of unemployment also moderated the wage demands of those who still held jobs.
▪ Section 4 discusses union wage setting, and develops a wage demand curve for each level of membership.
▪ The simultaneous interaction of the membership demand curve and the wage demand curve determines equilibrium wages, membership, and employment.
▪ This would decide whether the hard-won economic recovery of the post-IMF phase would be destroyed by rampaging wage demands and raging inflation.
differential
▪ Employees needed to know the wage differential and how that impacted unit labor costs.
▪ Wages as such and therefore wage differentials do not exist in many kibbutzim.
▪ For such workers, the wage differential precisely measures their willingness to pay for safety.
▪ The result is a complex structure of wage rates, characterised by a system of wage differentials.
▪ Estimates based on wage differentials are also reported in a study by Robert 5.
▪ Campbell earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation dealt with wage differentials between men and women.
▪ The data on occupational hazards and wage differentials, used by Thaler and Rosen, suffer from several problems: 1.
earner
▪ Many wage earners were indeed better off than ever before, and after 1922 the economy was free from inflation.
▪ In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.
▪ In Leicestershire only 22 percent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners, compared with 37 percent in Rutland next door.
▪ A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.
▪ As wage earners themselves, they saw the morality of equal pay.
▪ Even in households where wage earners have some graduate education, incomes have declined 1 percent since 1989.
▪ He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they hadn't made any payment for 17 months.
▪ Minimum wage earners, Kerry said, make about $ 8, 500 in a year.
freeze
▪ Those who had feared price and wage freezes were relieved.
▪ They agreed to return to work but under protest at the wage freeze and benefits cuts.
▪ The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 percent to a target of 13 percent.
increase
▪ A formula could be seen as a way to get a fair wage increase and made it easier to deal with differentials.
▪ The figures will show the effect of significant wage increases at Tynecastle in the past year.
▪ Democrats hope to use the minimum wage increase to contrast their positions with those of Republicans.
▪ A wage increase was granted in June, but below that demanded by the workers.
▪ They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
▪ The deal allowed for a wage increase for employees of 7 percent, with a further increase to be negotiated.
▪ While this was a victory and there was even a small wage increase, the Local had barely survived.
level
▪ But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.
▪ He set the wage levels, the production targets, the safety standards, and he really planned the whole industry.
▪ Resultant wage levels eroded corporate liquidity and profitability, although the extent of the deterioration varied between nations.
▪ Expect to see new calls on the administration -- of either party -- to somehow create jobs faster and raise wage levels.
▪ These might include, for example, a commitment to certain levels of investment, wage levels or even working conditions.
▪ A reasonable measure, say Hong Kong critics, among the currencies of countries of similar structure and similar wage levels.
▪ Trade unions do not have the right to strike nor negotiate wage levels, which are determined by the administrative centre.
▪ The evidence for this regional divergence does not rest only on wage levels in manufacturing and mining.
money
▪ It is the money wage alone which is determined by the bargains struck between workers and employers.
▪ Negotiations over pay are about changes in money wages.
▪ This would lead to a fall in the money wage and so restore full employment.
▪ This observation did appear to conform with the actual behaviour of money wages in the interwar period, particularly in Britain.
▪ In the above account the distinction between changes in money wages and changes in real wages has been deliberately blurred.
▪ Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise.
▪ Consider the original money wage version of the Phillips curve depicted in Figure 6.5.
▪ In these circumstances elementary competitive theory suggests that money wages will fall.
packet
▪ Mr Yarrow paused a moment before placing a wage packet into it.
▪ When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere.
▪ The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet.
▪ In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once.
rate
▪ The real wage rate is not a variable which can be directly negotiated in the bargaining process.
▪ Controlling for the other variables, Thaler and Rosen found a clear systematic tendency for wage rates to rise with increasing risk.
▪ If unemployment is classical, steps must be taken to reduce the real wage rate.
▪ It is the demand and supply conditions in these segmented markets which help to determine the wage rates of different workers.
▪ The effect of wage rates is a result of two conflicting elements.
▪ It was Keynes's view that, in practice, the money wage rate was downwardly rigid.
▪ The result is a complex structure of wage rates, characterised by a system of wage differentials.
▪ I remember when sick pay and conditions were added and when, under the wages councils, wage rates were raised.
rise
▪ So faster wage rises were needed if the system was to function smoothly.
▪ Economic unrest Workers at coal and copper mines went on strike during late July, demanding wage rises and improved conditions.
▪ A 50 percent wage rise was also decreed for most civil servants.
▪ Keynesianism seemed to have banished mass unemployment for ever and wage rises seemed as natural and regular as the tides.
▪ The return to work settlement included a bonus of 15 percent on top of a wage rise of 59 percent.
▪ The total wage rise of 6.25% built into the 1990-91 accord looks too high.
▪ Also obtain details of any wage rises awarded during the third party's absence from work.
■ VERB
earn
▪ Albert earned a steady wage, was a good gardener and could afford to keep a wife in reasonable comfort.
▪ Of course, people earning low wages will have a difficult time paying for childcare.
▪ Consequently, rather than earning a wage, they are likely to find themselves claiming a range of benefits, grants and allowances.
▪ It was what happened when young people earned decent wages, and had the means to buy clothes and go to discos.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ She was overjoyed to find she earned a much higher wage than for her factory work.
▪ But they did not earn a separate wage, they lived in effect in a mainly cashless society.
▪ I would do anything to earn a wage, however small - be a servant, even.
fall
▪ If the price level should rise, the real wage would fall, creating an excess demand for labour.
▪ Real wages fall because real skills are falling. 3.
▪ Real wages have fallen by 90 percent since 1981.
▪ In such a situation wages must fall, since every worker is working with less capital.
▪ For many people real wages fell and working conditions worsened.
▪ Relatively, college wages rose even though real wages were falling for both college and high school graduates.
▪ If so, the union collapses and wages fall to the competitive level.
▪ Then, around 1900, when profits rose but wages fell, the period was called the Belle Epoque.
pay
▪ It is not just a question of paying competitive wages.
▪ Students would be paid the starting wage for whatever job position they held.
▪ He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick.
▪ They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.
▪ He's being paid far below union wages in a factory with disgusting air quality.
▪ Federal law currently requires employees who work more than 40 hours in one week to be paid overtime wages.
▪ But workers were paid low wages, lived mostly in overcrowded bunkhouses and were subjected to daily body searches and internal scans.
▪ No one determines if the company is actually paying the prevailing wage.
raise
▪ Workers with reduced social protection were unable to raise their wages to compensate.
▪ He has a five-plank campaign that includes raising the minimum wage and opposition to school vouchers.
▪ A further edict of Aug. 18 raised the monthly minimum wage from 4,000,000 intis to 16,000,000 intis.
▪ Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the report proved that raising the minimum wage does not cost jobs.
▪ Instead of economic insecurity, they argued over raising the federal minimum wage.
▪ Ultimately, economic growth and improved education are the best ways to raise wages.
▪ To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.
▪ Politically, raising the minimum wage is good for the Democrats, but is it good for low-income workers?
receive
▪ He has always received minimum wages and saving has been difficult.
▪ Contingent workers receive lower wages, less fringes, fewer paid holidays, and must accept greater economic risks and uncertainty.
▪ The housewife receives no wage for her work.
▪ Women workers do not receive a fair wage because their earnings are considered a complementary salary.
▪ Very few workers - less than 5 percent - receive the statutory minimum wage, however.
▪ Ultimately Steele divided land amongst his slaves for which they paid rent; they received wages for other work.
▪ On the other hand, any workers lucky enough to be employed receive a higher wage.
▪ The worker, in contrast, has only his labour to sell and receives only wages in return.
reduce
▪ If unemployment is classical, steps must be taken to reduce the real wage rate.
▪ Many of the approximately 150 people we talked to were out of work or had suffered reduced wages.
▪ Only when they eventually become aware that no such jobs are available do they reduce their asking wage.
▪ In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.
▪ Workers' real wages would have been reduced, provided money wages did not rise.
▪ Policies aimed at reducing the wages of the lower paid have included: 1.
▪ In fact, as Mathias has pointed out, employers did not reduce wages when they wanted an increase in labour.
▪ Workers who face a reduction in demand for their services become unemployed rather than reduce their asking wages.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a livable wage/salary
dock sb's wages/pay/salary
starvation wages
▪ Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
▪ They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Elvina earns an hourly wage of $11.
▪ In general, computer jobs pay good wages.
▪ Most of the new jobs in the area only pay the minimum wage.
▪ Steve makes a decent wage as a civil engineer.
▪ Without qualifications it's nearly impossible to get a job with decent wages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 35p of this went on wages.
▪ As capital moves to low-wage areas, the employment rate tends to rise, and wages are pushed up.
▪ Being of very modest means, but having some contacts upon the turf, he attempted to increase his wages by gambling.
▪ Farmers are businessmen and since wages constitute a cost of production they will normally pay no more than prevailing conditions dictate.
▪ The behaviour of both productivity and product wages do not conform precisely to the simplest description of overaccumulation.
▪ The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.
▪ There was, in the mid century, a gap between rising wages and even more rapidly rising prices that favoured investment.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
battle
▪ Now, they say, future battles will be waged on features and added value.
▪ The battle they waged was biblical.
▪ They waged a battle, and we waged a skirmish, and they won.
campaign
▪ He was briefly arrested the next year after a campaign waged against him by the collaborationist journal Je Suis Partout.
▪ Feinstein handily defeated Davis in that race, despite a nasty campaign waged by Davis.
▪ I refer to the lively campaign being waged in the United States which is affecting many of their best-known golf clubs.
▪ Alderson believes there has been a whispering campaign waged against new owners Steve Schott and Ken Hofmann.
▪ Despite an intense campaign waged by real-estate brokers against subsidizing housing for the poor, the plan prevailed.
fight
▪ He has praised gang-fighting efforts and criticized the Clinton administration for waging an inadequate fight against drugs.
▪ He waged a valiant fight against the permanent replacement of strikers.
▪ Lincoln had been forced to wage his fight to end slavery with devastating force.
struggle
▪ It is necessary to wage a firm ideological struggle against this revisionist current. 6.
war
▪ It is election year, and a phoney war is being waged between the two main parties.
▪ Hundreds of smaller chains and stores went out of business, many hurt by price wars waged by appliance chains.
▪ There is now a horrific and bloody war being waged within me.
▪ But they also threaten people in scores of countries where wars have been waged.
▪ The Second World War, unlike the First, was a people's war waged against a hideous ideology.
▪ So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals.
▪ And war must be waged on organized crime.
warfare
▪ Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue.
▪ President Clinton and the Republican Senate are waging election-year warfare over the confirmation of 135 presidential appointees.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a livable wage/salary
starvation wages
▪ Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
▪ They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And war must be waged on organized crime.
▪ Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality, slapping it down, groaning.
▪ But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.
▪ So he theorized that, for democracies, waging war had a hyperbolic boomerang-like effect on society.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wage

Wage \Wage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waged; p. pr. & vb. n. Waging.] [OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge, promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge, gawadj[=o]n to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See Wed, and cf. Gage.]

  1. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
    --Hakluyt.

    My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies.
    --Shak.

  2. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. ``Too weak to wage an instant trial with the king.''
    --Shak.

    To wake and wage a danger profitless.
    --Shak.

  3. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

    [He pondered] which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
    --Dryden.

    The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
    --I. Taylor.

  4. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. [Obs.] ``Thou . . . must wage thy works for wealth.''
    --Spenser.

  5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

    Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.
    --Holinshed.

    I would have them waged for their labor.
    --Latimer.

  6. (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.
    --Burrill.

    To wage battle (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n.
    --Burrill.

    To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n.

Wage

Wage \Wage\, n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v. t. ]

  1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] ``That warlike wage.''
    --Spenser.

  2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. ``My day's wage.''
    --Sir W. Scott. ``At least I earned my wage.''
    --Thackeray. ``Pay them a wage in advance.''
    --J. Morley. ``The wages of virtue.''
    --Tennyson.

    By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry.
    --Drayton.

    Our praises are our wages.
    --Shak.

    Existing legislation on the subject of wages.
    --Encyc. Brit.

    Note: Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc.

    Board wages. See under 1st Board.

    Syn: Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.

Wage

Wage \Wage\, v. i. To bind one's self; to engage. [Obs.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wage

c.1300, "a payment for services rendered, reward, just deserts;" mid-14c., "salary paid to a provider of service," from Anglo-French and Old North French wage (Old French gage) "pledge, pay, reward," from Frankish *wadja- or another Germanic source (compare Old English wedd "pledge, agreement, covenant," Gothic wadi "pledge"), from Proto-Germanic *wadi- (see wed (v.)).\n

\nAlso from mid-14c., "a pledge, guarantee, surety" (usually in plural), and (c.1400) "a promise or pledge to meet in battle." The "payment for service" sense by late 14c. extended to allotments of money paid at regular intervals for continuous or repeated service. Traditionally in English wages were payment for manual or mechanical labor and somewhat distinguished from salary or fee. Modern French cognate gages (plural) means "wages of a domestic," one of a range of French "pay" words distinguished by class, such as traitement (university professor), paye, salaire (workman), solde (soldier), récompense, prix. The Old English word was lean, related to loan and representing the usual Germanic word (Gothic laun, Dutch loon, German lohn). Wage-earner attested from 1871.

wage

c.1300, "give (something) as surety, deposit as a pledge," from Old North French wagier "to pledge" (Old French gagier, "to pledge, guarantee, promise; bet, wager, pay," Modern French gager), from wage (see wage (n.)). Meaning "to carry on, engage in" (of war, etc.) is attested from mid-15c., probably from earlier sense of "to offer as a gage of battle, agree to engage in combat" (mid-14c.). Related: Waged; waging.

Wiktionary
wage

Etymology 1 n. An amount of money paid to a worker for a specify quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (label en transitive obsolete) To wager, bet. 2 (label en transitive obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. 3 (label en transitive obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire. 4 (label en transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest). 5 (label en transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. 6 (label en obsolete legal UK) To give security for the performance of.

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WordNet
wage

v. as of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage]

wage

n. something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: pay, earnings, remuneration, salary]

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Wikipedia
Wage (disambiguation)

Wage may refer to:

  • Wage, a compensation workers receive in exchange for their labor
  • WAGE (FM), a defunct radio station (91.1 FM) formerly licensed to serve Dogwood Lakes Estate, Florida, United States
  • WAGE-LP, a low-power radio station (106.5 FM) licensed to serve Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States
  • WAGE, the original callsign of radio station WCRW (1190 AM) in Leesburg, Virginia, United States
  • WAGE, the original callsign of radio station WHEN (AM) (620 AM) in Syracuse, New York, United States
  • Wide Area GPS Enhancement
Wage

A wage is monetary compensation (or remuneration, personnel expenses, labor) paid by an employer to an employee in exchange for work done. Payment may be calculated as a fixed amount for each task completed (a task wage or piece rate), or at an hourly or daily rate, or based on an easily measured quantity of work done.

Wages are an example of expenses that are involved in running a business.

Payment by wage contrasts with salaried work, in which the employer pays an arranged amount at steady intervals (such as a week or month) regardless of hours worked, with commission which conditions pay on individual performance, and with compensation based on the performance of the company as a whole. Waged employees may also receive tips or gratuity paid directly by clients and employee benefits which are non-monetary forms of compensation. Since wage labour is the predominant form of work, the term "wage" sometimes refers to all forms (or all monetary forms) of employee compensation.

WAGE (FM)

WAGE (91.1 FM) was a non-profit American radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. The station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to serve the community of Dogwood Lakes Estate, Florida.

The station was licensed to Florida Panhandle Technical College in Chipley, and operated by the Bethany Divinity College & Seminary of Dothan, Alabama. The programming focus of the station was Southern Gospel music, as a satellite of Bethany Divinity's WVOB in Dothan.

WAGE's license was cancelled by the FCC on March 31, 2015, due to having been silent for more than twelve months (since sometime in 2012).

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Usage examples of "wage".

CHAPTER 26 They Ride the Mountains Toward Goldburg Five days the Fellowship abode at Whiteness, and or ever they departed Clement waged men-at-arms of the lord of the town, besides servants to look to the beasts amongst the mountains, so that what with one, what with another, they entered the gates of the mountains a goodly company of four score and ten.

Kentucky might have been to accede to the proposition of General Polk, and which from his knowledge of the views of his own Government he was fully justified in offering, the State of Kentucky had no power, moral or physical, to prevent the United States Government from using her soil as best might suit its purposes in the war it was waging for the subjugation of the seceded States.

Mi efforts to engage, Gie me a maister who can smile When forkin aght mi wage.

Earl Hamilton flatly disagreed, arguing that capitalism was consolidated by the lag between the rise in prices and the rise in wages.

He remembered talk of a cloaked fighter who had waged battle near the Aureole Mine.

Shape-ups were held in the predawn down by the Vineland courthouse, shadowy brown buses idling in the dark, work and wages posted silently in the windows some mornings Zoyd had gone down, climbed on, ridden out with other newcomers, all cherry to the labor market up here, former artists or spiritual pilgrims now becoming choker setters, waiters and waitresses, baggers and checkout clerks, tree workers, truckdrivers, and framers, or taking temporary swamping jobs like this, all in the service of others, the ones who did the building, selling, buying and speculating.

I had no objections to go to the bush--I dreaded neither natives, nor snakes, nor bushrangers, but I behoved to make good wages.

But while the English were taking unarmed vessels, and calculating their profits, and the Prussians were bewailing their misfortunes and dressing their wounds, I alone had to wage war and ingloriously to shed the blood of my poor soldiers for a cause that was hardly the cause of Russia.

But of course some allowance had to be made for men not making much above wages when they came suddenly on a biggish stone, and sticking the pick into it found it to be a gigantic nugget worth a small fortune.

From time to time, in mention of the pay of men-at-arms, the wages of laborers, the price of a horse or a plow, the living expenses of a bourgeois family, the amounts of hearth taxes and sales taxes, I have tried to relate monetary figures to actual values.

Consequently Karl Mayer have to receive 139 rouble, 79 copecks, beside his wage.

Lots of the darkies left after they heard about folks getting rich working on the railroads in Tennessee and about the high wages that were being paid on those big plantations in Mississippi.

Nothing daunted, Brutus moved his troops into one of the many fortresses dotting the circumvallations built five years ago when Caesar and Pompey the Great had waged siege war there.

Or the dews fall, or the angry sun look down With poisoned light--Famine, and Pestilence, And Panic, shall wage war upon our side!

I covenanted and hyred John Hammond, jentleman, to serve me in his honest servyces for one yere, and to have 30 dolers for his full and all manner of wages.