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Wage   /weɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Wage  n.  
1.
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. (Obs.) "That warlike wage."
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. "My day's wage." "At least I earned my wage." "Pay them a wage in advance." "The wages of virtue." "By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry." "Our praises are our wages." "Existing legislation on the subject of wages." Note: 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.
Board wages. See under 1st Board.
Synonyms: Hire; reward; stipend; salary; allowance; pay; compensation; remuneration; fruit.


verb
Wage  v. t.  (past & past part. waged; pres. part. waging)  
1.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. "My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies."
2.
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. "Too weak to wage an instant trial with the king." "To wake and wage a danger profitless."
3.
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. " (He pondered) which of all his sons was fit To reign and wage immortal war with wit." "The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other."
4.
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. (Obs.) "Thou... must wage thy works for wealth."
5.
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. (Obs.) "Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers." "I would have them waged for their labor."
6.
(O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.
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.
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. (Obs.)





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"Wage" Quotes from Famous Books



... Some good man's garden I will essay, Pears and plums to pluck. I can spy a sparrow's nest, I will not go to school but when me lest,[202] For there beginneth a sorry feast, When the master should lift my dock. But, sirs, when I was seven year of age, I was sent to the world to take wage,[203] And this seven year I have been his page, And kept his commandment. Now I will wend to the world the worthy emperor. Hail! Lord of great honour, This seven year I have served you in hall and in bow'r With all ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley
... Mill's lapses into heresy from the orthodox economics of the day were notable, and Sir Charles was wont to point to a passage written by Mill in the forties showing that sweated wages depressed all wages, and to claim him as the pioneer of the minimum wage. ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn
... order and cheerfulness reign supreme. Each would require a chapter to do it justice, for everything employed in packing seems to be made on the premises, and that, too, on a system of piece-work paid for, not at the lowest possible price, but on the basis of securing a satisfactory living wage to the average worker. No wonder the faces around are bright, no wonder that openings at the Bournville factory are in demand, and that long service for the firm is the boast of so many of the employees. Among these, a little band of about thirty still ...
— The Food of the Gods - A Popular Account of Cocoa • Brandon Head
... remained for some time. It was a very beautiful, yet, as he learned also, a very dangerous country. No Indian tribe lived there, but all the tribes roamed over it as a hunting-ground. Upon these hunts, the fierce and warlike people would often meet and wage their bloody battles. These fights were so frequent and so awful, that the region was known by the name of the "Dark and Bloody Ground." In spite of danger, Finley lived there, until at last the traders and the Indians began to quarrel, and, for safety's sake, he was ...
— The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman • Uncle Philip
... Arthur went back to his palace, where, hearing that the Saxons had again invaded the country, he went to wage war against them, and won many victories. Shortly after this Arthur heard that Leodegraunce, King of Scotland, was threatened by his brother Ryance, King of Ireland, who was determined to complete a mantle furred with the beards ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber


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