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Wage   /weɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Wage  n.  
1.
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. (Obs.) "That warlike wage."
2.
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. "My day's wage." "At least I earned my wage." "Pay them a wage in advance." "The wages of virtue." "By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry." "Our praises are our wages." "Existing legislation on the subject of wages." Note: Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc.
Board wages. See under 1st Board.
Synonyms: Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.


verb
Wage  v. t.  (past & past part. waged; pres. part. waging)  
1.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. "My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies."
2.
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. "Too weak to wage an instant trial with the king." "To wake and wage a danger profitless."
3.
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. " (He pondered) 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."
4.
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. (Obs.) "Thou... must wage thy works for wealth."
5.
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. (Obs.) "Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers." "I would have them waged for their labor."
6.
(O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.
To wage battle (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n.
To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n.


Wage  v. i.  To bind one's self; to engage. (Obs.)





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"Wage" Quotes from Famous Books



... into debt for necessaries for them all. Kolb was earning a franc for daily wage as a brick-layer's laborer; and at last poor Eve, who, for the sake of her husband and child, had sacrificed her last resources to entertain David's father, saw that she had only ten francs left. She had hoped to the last to soften the ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... happiness for all. Not so. Literally millions were living in abject poverty, slaves to their pay-envelopes; to lose a job meant to lose everything, there being more laborers than jobs, or if not, at least recurrent "panics" and "hard times" when the mills and the mines shut down. And these wage slaves had practically no voice in one of the chief things of their life—their work. So millions were penned in places of danger and disease and dirt, lived and toiled in squalor, and were cut off from growth, from health, from leisure and culture and recreation; ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim
... him!... Why can an army beat a mob of double its numbers? Because the army is ORGANIZED! Because the army fights as one man for one object!... You are a mob. Capital is organized against you.... How can you hope to defend yourselves? How can you force a betterment of your conditions, of your wage?... By becoming an army—a labor army!... By organizing.... That's why I'm here, sent by the National Federation—to organize you. To show you how to resist!... To teach you how to make yourselves irresistible!..." There were shouts ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... but would rather all die. Moreover he sent his letters to the Emperor and to the other Kings, telling them that they well knew the wrong which the Emperor did him, having no jurisdiction over him, nor lawful claim; and he besought them to let him alone that he might continue to wage war against the enemies of the faith; but if they persisted to speak against him he then sent them back their friendship, and defied them, and where they all were there would he go seek them. While this reply ...
— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various
... Skedlock; "he's drawn his wage wi' his teeth, so fur. But he's larnin', yo' known—he's larnin'. Where's yo'r Jone? I want to see him ...
— Th' Barrel Organ • Edwin Waugh


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