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Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, gage, from Frankish *waddi, wadja (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadjo, wadi- (“‘pledge’”) from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (“‘to pledge, redeem a pledge’”). Akin to Old Norse veþja "to pledge", Gothic wadi. More at wed.

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular wage

Plural wages

wage (plural wages)

  1. an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.

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Verb

Infinitive to wage

Third person singular wages

Simple past waged

Past participle waged

Present participle waging

to wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:
      with the grete goodes we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce [...].
  3. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
    to wage war

Derived terms

Translations

to conduct or carry out
  • Finnish: ryhtyä fi(fi)
  • French: mener fr(fr)
  • Icelandic: heyja stríð (to wage war), heyja
  • Japanese: 行う ja(ja) (okonau)
  • Portuguese: conduzir pt(pt)

 

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