WAGE
\wˈe͡ɪd͡ʒ], \wˈeɪdʒ], \w_ˈeɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of WAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
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To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
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To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
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To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
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To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
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To give security for the performance of.
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To bind one's self; to engage.
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That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
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That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
By Oddity Software
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To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
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To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
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To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
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To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
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To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
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To give security for the performance of.
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To bind one's self; to engage.
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That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
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That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; - at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To pledge: to engage in as if by pledge: to carry on, esp. of war: to venture.
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A gage or stake: that for which one labors: wages. Though a plural, wages sometimes has a verb in the singular. "The wages of sin is death."-Rom. vi. 23. "Wages, then, depend mainly upon the demand and supply of labor."-J. S. Mill. In ordinary language the term wages is usually restricted to the remuneration for mechanical or muscular labor, esp. to that which is ordinarily paid at short intervals, as weekly or fortnightly, to workmen. Correctly speaking, however, what is called the fees of professional men, as lawyers, physicians, etc., the salaries of public functionaries, businessmen, etc., the pay of military and naval men, and the like, all are wages. On the other hand, when an author publishes a book, or a shoemaker sells a pair of shoes, the sums received are not wages, though to the seller they are virtually the same thing.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To bet; to stake; to put at hazard on the event of a contest; to venture; to make; to undertake; to carry on, as to wage war. See Wed.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.