Wage

[weɪdʒ] or [wedʒ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) something that remunerates; 'wages were paid by check'; 'he wasted his pay on drink'; 'they saved a quarter of all their earnings'.

海耶斯校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

(v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

(v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

(v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

(v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

(v. t.) To give security for the performance of.

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

(v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

(v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

康拉德編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Bet, stake, pledge, lay, wager.[2]. Undertake (as war), carry on, engage in.

费理斯編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Carry_on, make, {undertake_(as_war)}, bet, stake, pledge

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to pledge: to engage in as if by pledge: to carry on esp. of war: to venture: (prov.) to hire for pay: (Shak.) to pay wages to: (Spens.) to let out for pay.—v.i. (Shak.) to be equal in value to contend battle (with).—n. a gage or stake: that for which one labours: wages.—ns. Wage′-earn′er one receiving pay for work done; Wage′-fund Wā′ges-fund theory the theory that there is at any given time in a country a determinate amount of capital available for the payment of labour therefore the average wage depends on the proportion of this fund to the number of persons who have to share in it; Wā′ger that which is waged or pledged: something staked on the issue of anything: a bet: that on which bets are laid: (law) an offer to make oath.—v.t. to hazard on the issue of anything.—v.i. to lay a wager.—n. Wā′gerer.—n.pl. Wā′ges (used as sing.) wage: that which is paid for services.—n. Wage′-work work done for wages.—Wager of battle trial by combat an ancient usage which permitted the accused and accuser in defect of sufficient direct evidence to challenge each other to mortal combat for issue of the dispute.—Living wage (see Living).

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