ALL meanings of wage
wage
W w - noun wage pay per hour, day, week, etc. 1
- noun,plural wage regular pay 1
- noun wage A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker. 1
- noun wage Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage. 1
- noun wage Usually, wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital). 1
- noun wage Usually, wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return: The wages of sin is death. 1
- noun wage Obsolete. a pledge or security. 1
- verb with object wage to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation. 1
- verb with object wage Chiefly British Dialect. to hire. 1
- verb with object wage Obsolete. to stake or wager. to pledge. 1
- verb without object wage Obsolete. to contend; struggle. 1
- noun wage 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. 0
- verb wage (Transitive Verb) OBS To wager, bet. 0
- verb wage (Transitive Verb) OBS To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. 0
- verb wage (Transitive Verb) OBS To employ for wages; to hire. 0
- verb wage (Transitive Verb) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest). 0
- verb wage (Transitive Verb) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. 0
- verb wage (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (law, Britain) To give security for the performance of. 0
- countable noun wage Someone's wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do. 0
- verb wage If a person, group, or country wages a campaign or a war, they start it and continue it over a period of time. 0
- noun wage payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis 0
- noun wage (as modifier) 0
- noun wage the portion of the national income accruing to labour as earned income, as contrasted with the unearned income accruing to capital in the form of rent, interest, and dividends 0
- noun wage recompense, return, or yield 0
- verb wage to engage in 0
- verb wage to pledge or wager 0
- verb transitive wage to engage in or carry on (a war, struggle, campaign, etc.) 0
- verb transitive wage to hire 0
- noun wage money paid to an employee for work done, and usually figured on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis 0
- noun wage what is given in return; recompense; requital 0
- noun wage the share of the total product of industry that goes to labor, as distinguished from the share taken by capital 0