If a person, group, or country wages a campaign or a war, they start it and continue it over a period of time. the three factions that had been waging a civil war. to be involved in a war against someone, or a fight against something wage war (on sb/sth)
To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar
That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; at present generally used in the plural
Someone's wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do. His wages have gone up This may end efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line
something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings