wage
//weɪd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- wages
- present (v1)
- wage
- past (v2)
- waged
- past participle (v3)
- waged
- present participle
- waging
- 3rd person singular
- wages
Definitions
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.
- Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.
1.To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
- Setting our sights back on King’s Landing, where the Last War will be waged, makes a lot of sense, even if it does feel a bit anticlimactic after last week’s deadly, blustery maelstrom.
2.To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2458
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
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”).