wage

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 Derived terms 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, gage, from Frankish *waddi, wadja (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadjo, wadi- (“‘pledge’”) from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (“‘to pledge, redeem a pledge’”). Akin to Old Norse veþja "to pledge", Gothic wadi. More at wed.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /weɪʤ/
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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

[edit] Noun

wage (plural wages)

1. an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.

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• hourly wage
• lost wages

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• earnings
• pay
• salary
• wages

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• wage moderation

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to wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:

     with the grete goodes we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce [...].

3. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).

   to wage war

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• wage war
• wager (agent noun)

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