Wage

/weɪd͡ʒ/ · noun

Meaning

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour..

Definitions by Sense

1. (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
5. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
6. (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
7. (obsolete, law, UK) To give security for the performance of.

Example Sentences

Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.

My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thine enemies

I fear the power of Percy is too weak / To wage an instant trial with the King.

to wake and wage a danger profitless.

Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce

[B]etter it as for him to trie the vttermoſt pointe of fortunes happe, than with diſhonour ſo to yeelde at the firſt blow of hyr frowarde hande, conſidering the abundance of treaſure whiche he had in ſtore, wherewith hee might wage ſouldiers and menne of warre out of Germanie and other places, in number ſufficient to matche with his enimies.

pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit / To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit

The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.

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• waging
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