Wage
[weɪdʒ] or [wedʒ]
Definition
(noun.) something that remunerates; 'wages were paid by check'; 'he wasted his pay on drink'; 'they saved a quarter of all their earnings'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bet, stake, pledge, lay, wager.[2]. Undertake (as war), carry on, engage in.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Carry_on, make, {undertake_(as_war)}, bet, stake, pledge
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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons engaging in new enterprises. To pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction. To have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest that is being taken against you. An increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking.
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Examples
- The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to wage slavery or the capitalism of to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Under a series of wise men and heroes they wage a generally unsuccessful and never very united warfare against their enemies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And my brother has always paid her wage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why are we to have less wage now, I ask, than two year ago? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They do what they do, not freely and intelligently, but for the sake of the wage earned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We'n getten money laid by; and we're resolved to stand and fall together; not a man on us will go in for less wage than th' Union says is our due. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I took my wages to my pillow, and passed the night counting them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And my wages? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It must always, in the long-run, be advanced to him by his immediate employer, in the advanced state of wages. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Twelve shillings a week, even when they are an old man's wages, bury themselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The power of masters and men became more evenly balanced; and now the battle is pretty fairly waged between us. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There have been few patent struggles to compare with that which was waged over the telephone. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For a time that war was waged by the new levies with a patriotism and a zeal unparalleled in the world's history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A world of independent sovereign nations means, therefore, a world of perpetual injuries, a world of states constantly preparing for or waging war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The partners’ wrote frequently to each other, and their letters show the fierceness of the struggle they were waging to protect their rights. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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