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wage

  [weyj] ,noun, verb, waged, wag⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
2. Usually, wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).
3. Usually, wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return: The wages of sin is death.
4. Obsolete. a pledge or security.
–verb (used with object)
5. to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation.
6. Chiefly British Dialect. to hire.
7. Obsolete.
a. to stake or wager.
b. to pledge.
–verb (used without object)
8. Obsolete. to contend; struggle.
Origin:
1275–1325; (n.) ME: pledge, security < AF; OF guage gage 1 < VL *wadium < Gmc (see wed ); (v.) ME wagen to pledge < AF wagier; OF guagier < VL *wadiāre, deriv. of *wadium

Related forms:
wageless, adjective
wage⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. earnings, emolument, compensation, remuneration. See pay 1 . 5. undertake, prosecute.
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Word Origin & History

wage  (v.)
c.1320, "to pledge, deposit as a pledge," from O.N.Fr. wagier (O.Fr. gagier), from wage (see wage (n.)). Meaning "to carry on" (of war, etc.) is attested from 1456, probably from earlier sense of "to offer as a gage of battle" (c.1430).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: wage
Function: noun
1 : a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to a contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis —often used in pl.
2 plural : the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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