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wage
[ weyj ]
noun
- Often wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
Synonyms: , , ,
- Usually wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).
- Usually wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return:
The wages of sin is death.
- Obsolete. a pledge or security.
verb (used with object)
waged, waging.
- to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.):
to wage war against a nation.
Synonyms: ,
- Chiefly British Dialect. to hire.
- Obsolete.
- to stake or wager.
- to pledge.
verb (used without object)
waged, waging.
- Obsolete. to contend; struggle.
wage
/ 飞别瑟诲萧 /
noun
- often plural payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis Compare salary
- ( as modifier )
wage freeze
- plural economics 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
- often plural recompense, return, or yield
- an obsolete word for pledge
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Derived Forms
- 藞飞补驳别濒别蝉蝉苍别蝉蝉, noun
- 藞飞补驳别濒别蝉蝉, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 飞补驳别顎僱别蝉蝉 adjective
- 飞补驳别顎僱别蝉蝉路ness noun
- 耻苍顎僤别谤路飞补驳别顎 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wage1
First recorded in 1275鈥1325; (noun) Middle English: 鈥減ledge, security,鈥 from Anglo-French; Old French guage gage 1, from unattested Vulgar Latin wadium, from Germanic ( wed ); (verb) Middle English wagen 鈥渢o pledge,鈥 from Anglo-French wagier; Old French guagier, from unattested Vulgar Latin 飞补诲颈腻谤别, derivative of wadium
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of wage1
C14: from Old Northern French wagier to pledge, from wage, of Germanic origin; compare Old English weddian to pledge, wed
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Synonym Study
See pay 1.
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But talks broke down in a dispute over wages.
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A hunger strike is a battle the striker wages against their own body.
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Without European football, most players would find themselves on lower wages, potentially by as much as 25%, so expenses should go down.
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He pointed to extra NHS appointments and rising wages as examples of the progress the government had made.
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Texas, in addition to having no personal income tax or estate tax, has a $7.25 minimum wage and a right-to-work law.
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