If your job pays a good wage, it means that you earn a lot of money for the hard work you do. If you're not happy with your wage, you might have to wage war on your boss.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager;
Noun
something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
Verb
as of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"
v. t.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake;
to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
v. t.
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger;
to venture; to hazard.
v. t.
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or
pledge; to carry on, as a war.
v. t.
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
v. t.
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
v. t.
To give security for the performance of.
v. i.
To bind one's self; to engage.
v. t.
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one
incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
v. t.
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated
payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present
generally used in the plural. See Wages.
Wage
My life I never but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies.2.
To wake and wage a danger profitless.3.
[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.
Abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers.
I would have them waged for their labor.6.
Wage
Wage
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.
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager;
To bind one's self; to engage.
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
Usage Examples
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
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Other Usage ExamplesBy providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
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