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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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wage   (wāj)   
n.  
  1. Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
  2. wages Economics The portion of the national product that represents the aggregate paid for all contributing labor and services as distinguished from the portion retained by management or reinvested in capital goods.
  3. A fitting return; a recompense. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb: the wages of sin.
tr.v.   waged, wag·ing, wag·es
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

[Middle English, from Old North French, of Germanic origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Wages

Wa"ges\, n. plural in termination, but singular in signification. [Plural of wage; cf. F. gages, pl., wages, hire. See Wage, n.] A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.

The wages of sin is death. --Rom. vi. 23.

Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account. --Encyc. Brit.

Syn: See under Wage, n.
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wages

Payment for services to a worker, usually remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis.

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Wages

Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgements threatened against the withholding of (Jer. 22:13; Mal. 3:5; comp. James 5:4); paid in money (Matt. 20:1-14); to Jacob in kind (Gen. 29:15, 20; 30:28; 31:7, 8, 41).

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