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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



... plaintive. Their boldness increases and soon you see them flitting with a saucy and inquiring air about barns and outbuildings, peeping into dove-cota and stable windows, and prospecting for a place to nest. They wage war against robins, pick quarrels with swallows, and would forcibly appropriate their mud houses, seeming to doubt the right of every other bird to exist but themselves. But soon, as the season advances, domestic instincts ...
— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus
... have that form of it called national rivalry, which in good truth is nowadays the cause of all gunpowder and bayonet wars which civilized nations wage. For years past we English have been rather shy of them, except on those happy occasions when we could carry them on at no sort of risk to ourselves, when the killing was all on one side, or at all events when we hoped it would be. We have been shy of gunpowder war ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris
... KNIGHT. Del Bosco, as thou lov'st and honour'st us, Persuade our governor against the Turk: This truce we have is but in hope of gold, And with that sum he craves might we wage war. ...
— The Jew of Malta • Christopher Marlowe
... wages with the understanding that when the summer was over he might remain with him and attend school the coming winter, Austin thought it wise to accept the offer, though the wages were considerably less than he could have gotten elsewhere. He thought that the lesser wage which Mr. Coles paid him would make his board right for the coming winter, and he did not wish ...
— The Hero of Hill House • Mable Hale
... lead out an army; but that they should not enter the enemy's territories before every particular, respecting the surrender of us, be regularly executed. You, O immortal gods! I pray and beseech that, although it has not been your will that Spurius Postumius and Titus Veturius, as consuls, should wage war with success against the Samnites, ye may yet deem it sufficient to have seen us sent under the yoke; to have seen us bound under an infamous convention; to have seen us delivered into the hands of our foes naked and shackled, taking on our own heads the whole ...
— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius


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