wage

See also Wage

English

Wikipedia

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 *wadjō, *wadi- (“pledge”) from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veþja "to pledge", Gothic wadi. More at wed.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /weɪʤ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

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.

Synonyms

• earnings, pay, salary

Derived terms

Terms derived from wage (noun)

hourly wage lost wages

wage moderation wage scale

Translations

money paid to a worker

Arabic: أجر (ar) ('ájr) m., راتب (ar) (raatib) m. Catalan: salari m., sou m., paga f., honorari m., estipendi m., remuneració f., retribució f. Chinese: Mandarin: 工資 (cmn), 工资 (cmn) (gōngzī), 薪金 (cmn) (xīnjīn), 薪水 (cmn) (xīnshui) Czech: mzda (cs) f. Dutch: loon (nl) n., salaris (nl) n. Estonian: palk Finnish: palkka, ansiotulo, liksa (fi) French: salaire (fr) m. Georgian: ხელფასი (ka) ('khel'pa'si) German: Lohn (de) m. Greek: μισθός (el) (misthós) m., (colloquial, daily wage) μεροκάματο (el) (merokámato) n. Hebrew: משכורת (he) (maskoret) f., שכר (he) (sakhar) m. Hindi: तनख़्वाह (hi) (tanaḵẖvāha), वेतन (hi) (vētana), मासिक वेतन (hi) (māsika vētana) Icelandic: laun (is) n. pl. Indonesian: gaji (id)

Interlingua: paga, salario Italian: salario (it) m. Japanese: 給料 (ja) (きゅうりょう, kyūryō), サラリー (ja) (sararī) Korean: 임금 (ko) (imgeum), 급료 (ko) (geupryo), 봉급 (ko) (bonggeup), 삯 (ko) (sak(s)), 품삯 (ko) (pumsak) Kurdish: meaş (ku) m., miz (ku) m., muçe (ku) m., destheq (ku) f. Persian: مزد (mōzd), دست‌مزد (dăst-mōzd), کارمزد (kär-mōzd) Polish: pensja (pl) f., płaca (pl) f. Portuguese: salário (pt) m., ordenado (pt) m., remuneração (pt) f. Romanian: plată f., salariu n., leafă f. Russian: заработная плата (ru) (zárabotnaja pláta) f., зарплата (ru) (zarpláta) f., жалование (ru) (žálovanije) n. Scottish Gaelic: cosnadh (gd) m., pàigh (gd) m., tuarasdal (gd) m. Slovak: mzda (sk) f. Spanish: salario (es) m., sueldo (es) m. Swedish: lön (sv) c. Turkish: ücret (tr), gündelik (tr)

Verb

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

Derived terms

• wager (agent noun)

Translations

to conduct or carry out

Chinese: Mandarin: 發動 (zh), 发动 (zh) (fādòng) Finnish: ryhtyä (fi) French: mener (fr) German: führen (de)

Icelandic: heyja stríð (is) (to wage war), heyja (is) Japanese: 行う (ja) (おこなう, okonau) Portuguese: conduzir (pt) Russian: вести (ru) (vestí) impf., проводить (ru) (provodít') impf.

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Dutch

Verb

wage

1. singular present subjunctive of wagen.

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German

Verb

wage

1. First-person singular present of wagen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of wagen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of wagen.
4. Imperative singular of wagen.