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[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun wage has 1 senses

wage(n = noun.possession) earnings, pay, remuneration, salary - something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
is a kind of regular payment
is a part of payroll, paysheet
has particulars: combat pay, double time, found, half-pay, living wage, merit pay, minimum wage, pay envelope, pay packet, sick pay, strike pay, take-home pay

Verb wage has 1 senses

wage(v = verb.social) engage - carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"
is one way to contend, fight, struggle
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

wage, v. t. [OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge, promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge, gawadjōn to pledge, akin to E. wed, G. wette a wager. See Wed, and cf. Gage.].

1. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
"My life I never but as a pawn
To wage against thy enemies." [1913 Webster]

2. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"To wake and wage a danger profitless." [1913 Webster]

3. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. [1913 Webster]
" [He pondered] which of all his sons was fit
To reign and wage immortal war with wit." [1913 Webster]
"The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other." [1913 Webster]

4. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

5. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. [1913 Webster]
"Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers." [1913 Webster]
"I would have them waged for their labor." [1913 Webster]

6. To give security for the performance of. Burrill. [1913 Webster]

To wage battle (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in the duellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n. Burrill. -- To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under Wager, n.

wage, v. i.

To bind one's self; to engage. [1913 Webster]

wage, n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See Wage, v. t. ].

1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

2. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. [1913 Webster]
" Wage is used adjectively and as the first part of compounds which are usually self-explaining; as, wage worker, or wage-worker; wage-earner, etc." [1913 Webster]
"By Tom Thumb, a fairy page,
He sent it, and doth him engage,
By promise of a mighty wage,
It secretly to carry." [1913 Webster]
"Our praises are our wages." [1913 Webster]
"Existing legislation on the subject of wages." [1913 Webster]

Board wages. See under 1st Board.
Syn. -- Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

wage, n. & v.
--n.
1 (in sing. or pl.) a fixed regular payment, usu. daily or weekly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. to a manual or unskilled worker (cf. SALARY).
2 (in sing. or pl.) requital (the wages of sin is death).
3 (in pl.) Econ. the part of total production that rewards labour rather than remunerating capital.
--v.tr. carry on (a war, conflict, or contest).

Idiom:
living wage a wage that affords the means of normal subsistence. wage-claim = pay-claim (see PAY(1)). wage-earner a person who works for wages. wages council a board of workers' and employers' representatives determining wages where there is no collective bargaining. wage slave a person dependent on income from labour in conditions like slavery.

Etymology:
ME f. AF & ONF wage, OF g(u)age, f. Gmc, rel. to GAGE(1), WED