wage
31wage — 01. The minimum [wage] is now over $8.00 an hour. 02. [Wages] in the United States are much higher than in Mexico. 03. As an experienced electrician, she earns a very good [wage]. 04. I hope to earn a good [wage] if I become fluent in English. 05 …
32wage — wage1 [ weıdʒ ] noun count ** wage or wages an amount of money that you earn for working, usually according to how many hours or days you work each week or month: daily/hourly/weekly wage They re protesting about low wages. a. only before noun… …
33wage — Synonyms and related words: base pay, carry on, compensation, conduct, dismissal wage, do, earnings, employ, engage in, escalator clause, escalator plan, exercise, financial remuneration, follow, go in for, gross income, guaranteed annual wage,… …
34wage — {{11}}wage (n.) c.1300, a payment for services rendered, also in Middle English a pledge of security (mid 14c.), from O.N.Fr. wage (O.Fr. guage) pledge, from Frankish *wadja (Cf. O.E. wedd, Gothic wadi pledge ); see WED (Cf. wed). Modern French… …
35wage — 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… …
36wage — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, pledge, recompense, from Anglo French wage, gage, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German wetti pledge more at wed Date: 14th century 1. a. a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according… …
37wage — [14] Wage and gage (as in engage) are doublets – that is to say, they come from the same ultimate source, but have drifted apart over the centuries. The source in this case was prehistoric Germanic *wathjam ‘pledge’, which is also the ancestor of …
38wage*/*/*/ — [weɪdʒ] noun [C] I a regular amount of money that you earn for working a daily/hourly/weekly wage[/ex] I ve usually spent all my wages by Tuesday.[/ex] What is the minimum wage here?[/ex] II verb [T] wage [weɪdʒ] to start and continue a war or… …
39wage — [14] Wage and gage (as in engage) are doublets – that is to say, they come from the same ultimate source, but have drifted apart over the centuries. The source in this case was prehistoric Germanic *wathjam ‘pledge’, which is also the ancestor of …
40wage — wageless, adj. wagelessness, n. /wayj/, n., v., waged, waging. n. 1. Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Cf. living wage, minimum wage. 2. Usually, wages. Econ. the share of the… …
