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 Definitions of wage  [ɪdʒ]  

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Definition of 'wage' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) wage
Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services.

2.  wage
wages, recompense or return:
The wages of sin is death.

3.  wage
Obs. a pledge or security.

4. (v.t.) wage
to carry on (a battle, argument, etc.):
to wage war.

5.  wage
Obs.

6.  wage
to stake or wager.

7.  wage
to pledge.

8. (v.i.) wage
Obs. to contend; struggle.

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

Definition of 'wage' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
something that remunerates
"wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

2. (verb) engage, wage
carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
"Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"


Definition of 'wage' Webster Dictionary 

1. (verb) wage
to pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar

2. (verb) wage
to expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard

3. (verb) wage
to engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war

4. (verb) wage
to adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out

5. (verb) wage
to put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to

6. (verb) wage
to give security for the performance of

7. (verb) wage
to bind one's self; to engage

8. (verb) wage
that which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage

9. (verb) wage
that for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages


Translation of 'wage' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to carry on or engage in (especially a war)
The North waged war on/against the South.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: voer Arabic flag Arabic: يَشُنُّ حَرْبا Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: водя
Brazilian flag Brazilian: empreender Czech flag Czech: vést/rozpoutat (válku) German flag German: führen
Danish flag Danish: føre (krig) Greek flag Greek: διεξάγω (πόλεμο) Spanish flag Spanish: hacer (la guerra), librar
Estonian flag Estonian: (sõda) pidama Farsi flag Farsi: به جنگ وارد شدن Finnish flag Finnish: käydä
French flag French: faire (la guerre) Hebrew flag Hebrew: לַעֲרוֹך Hindi flag Hindi: जंग करना
Croatian flag Croatian: voditi rat Hungarian flag Hungarian: hadat visel vki ellen Indonesian flag Indonesian: melancarkan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: heyja (stríð) Italian flag Italian: intraprendere Japanese flag Japanese: 行なう
Korean flag Korean: (전쟁, 투쟁, 토론 등을) 하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: kariauti Latvian flag Latvian: uzsākt karu; karot
Malay flag Malay: memerangi Dutch flag Dutch: voeren Norwegian flag Norwegian: føre (krig)
Polish flag Polish: prowadzić, rozpętać Persian flag Persian: به جنگ وارد شدن Pashto flag Pashto: بوختېدل، برمخ بيول، برخه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: empreender Romanian flag Romanian: a purta (război) Russian flag Russian: вести
Slovak flag Slovak: viesť / rozpútať (vojnu) Slovenian flag Slovenian: spustiti se v Serbian flag Serbian: voditi
Swedish flag Swedish: utkämpa, föra Thai flag Thai: เข้าร่วมต่อสู้ Turkish flag Turkish: başlatmak, açmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 發動(尤指戰爭) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вести (війну) Urdu flag Urdu: جنگ کرنا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: tiến hành Chinese flag Chinese: 进行(战争、运动)

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