Wage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
  • n. Economics The portion of the national product that represents the aggregate paid for all contributing labor and services as distinguished from the portion retained by management or reinvested in capital goods.
  • n. A fitting return; a recompense. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb: the wages of sin.
  • v. To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
  • v. To wager, bet.
  • v. To employ for wages; to hire.
  • v. To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager.
  • v. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
  • v. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
  • v. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
  • v. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
  • v. To give security for the performance of.
  • verb-intransitive. To bind one's self; to engage.
  • n. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
  • n. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A gage; a pledge; a stake.
  • n. That which is paid for a service rendered; what is paid for labor; hire: now usually in the plural.
  • n. Synonyms Pay, Hire, etc. See salary.
  • To pledge; bet; stake on a chance; lay; wager.
  • To venture on; hazard; attempt; encounter.
  • To engage in, as in a contest; carry on, as a war; undertake.
  • To let out for pay.
  • To hire for pay; engage or employ for wages.
  • To pay wages to.
  • In ceramics, to knead, work, or temper, as potters' clay.
  • To contend; battle.
  • To serve as a pledge or stake for something else; be opposed as equal stakes in a wager; be equal in value: followed by with.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
  • n. something that remunerates
  • Verb Form
    waged    wages    waging   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pledge    stake    wager    venture    hazard    hire    employ    engage    compensation    fruit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Age    Cage    Gage    Osage    Page    Paige    age    assuage    backstage    cage   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    salary    income    tax    compensation    rend    allowance    pension    employment    price    labor