Wage

Quick meaning: Wage is a noun meaning (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
3. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
4. (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
5. (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.
6. (obsolete, law, UK) To give security for the performance of.

Example Sentences

to wake and wage a danger profitless.

Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.

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

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

Word Forms

• wages
• waging
• waged

Synonyms for wage

Depending on context, synonyms include earnings, pay, salary, engage, remuneration.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include salary, earnings, remuneration, pay, engage, paycheck.

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