Definitions for wageweɪdʒ

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

wageweɪdʒ(n.; v.)waged, wag•ing.

(n.)Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services.
Category: Business
Ref: Compare living wage , minimum wage. 1
wages, recompense or return:
The wages of sin is death.
Obs. a pledge or security.
(v.t.)to carry on (a battle, argument, etc.):
to wage war.
Obs. to stake or wager. to pledge.
(v.i.)Obs. to contend; struggle.

Origin of wage:

1275–1325; ME: pledge, security < AF; OF guagegage1< VL *wadium < Gmc (see wed )

Princeton's WordNet

wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary(verb)
something that remunerates
"wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
engage, wage(verb)
carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
"Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"

Wiktionary

wage(Noun)
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
wage(Verb)
To wager, bet.
wage(Verb)
To employ for wages; to hire.
wage(Verb)
To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
to wage war

Origin: from wage, a northern variant of gauge, gage, from *waddi, wadja (cognate with wedd), from wadjō, from wadh-. Akin to veþja "to pledge", wadi. More at wed.

Webster Dictionary

Wage(verb)
to pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar
Wage(verb)
to expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard
Wage(verb)
to engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war
Wage(verb)
to adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out
Wage(verb)
to put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to
Wage(verb)
to give security for the performance of
Wage(verb)
to bind one's self; to engage
Wage(verb)
that which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage
Wage(verb)
that for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages