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Wage

//weɪd͡ʒ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour. often, plural

    "Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less."

  2. 2
    something that remunerates wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To wager, bet. obsolete, transitive

    "My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thine enemies"

  2. 2
    carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) wordnet
  3. 3
    To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. obsolete, transitive

    "I fear the power of Percy is too weak / To wage an instant trial with the King."

  4. 4
    To employ for wages; to hire. obsolete, transitive

    "Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce"

  5. 5
    To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest). transitive

    "pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit / To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit"

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  1. 6
    To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. transitive

    "Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage."

  2. 7
    To give security for the performance of. UK, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddī, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiō from *wadium.

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