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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
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Cultural Dictionary

wages

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

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

wage  (n.)
c.1300, "a payment for services rendered," also in M.E. "a pledge of security" (1338), from O.N.Fr. wage (O.Fr. guage) "pledge," from Frank. *wadja- (cf. O.E. wedd, Gothic wadi "pledge"); see wed. Mod.Fr. cognate gages (pl.) means "wages of a domestic," one of a plethora of Fr. words for different classes, e.g. traitement (university professor), paye, salaire (workman), solde (soldier), récompense, prix. The O.E. (and usual Gmc.) word was lean, related to loan (cf. Goth. laun, Du. loon, Ger. lohn)
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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Bible Dictionary

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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