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wage

Pronunciation: /weɪdʒ/
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Definition of wage

noun

(also wages)
  • a fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis: we were struggling to get better wages an income of less than half the average wageCompare with salary.
  • (wages) Economics the part of total production that is the return to labour as earned income as distinct from the remuneration received by capital as unearned income.
  • the result or effect of doing something considered wrong or unwise:disasters are the wages of sin

verb

[with object]
  • carry on (a war or campaign):it is necessary to destroy their capacity to wage war

Origin:

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French, of Germanic origin; related to gage1 and wed

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