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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.

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Singular
wage

Plural
wages

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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Infinitive
to wage

Third person singular
wages

Simple past
waged

Past participle
waged

Present participle
waging

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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