Wage Definition

wāj

waged, wages, waging

noun

wages

Money paid to an employee for work done, and usually figured on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis.

Webster's New World

The price of labor in an economy.

American Heritage

What is given in return; recompense; requital.

“The wages of sin is death”

Webster's New World

The share of the total product of industry that goes to labor, as distinguished from the share taken by capital.

Webster's New World

The payment to an employee, usually based on hours worked or quantity of goods or services produced.

Webster's New World Law

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verb

waged, wages, waging

To engage in or carry on (a war, struggle, campaign, etc.)

Webster's New World

To hire.

Webster's New World

To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

Wiktionary

Holinshed.

Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.

Wiktionary

To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Wage

Singular:

wage

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From Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), itself (possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *wadium) from Frankish *waddi, wadja (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadjō, *wadi- (“pledge"), from Proto-Indo-European *wadh- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge"). Akin to Old Norse veþja "to pledge", Gothic wadi. Cf. also the doublet gage. More at wed. Possible contributory etylomolgy from from the Old English wæge (meaning "weight," as wages at times have been goods or coin measured on a scale).

From Wiktionary
From Middle English wagen (“to pledge"), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium.

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old North French of Germanic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition