wage

Definition of wage in English English dictionary: To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest)
to wage war.; To wager, bet; an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis; To employ for wages; to hire
with the grete goodes we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce .; 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); {v} to lay a wager, engage in, make, hire; To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar; To give security for the performance of; That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage; as of wars, battles, or campaigns; "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"; {f} engage in, conduct (war, battle); 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; the price of labour defined over a period of time worked (chapter 13); {i} salary, payment, earnings; just recompense (Literary); To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war; To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard; to reward as with wages; The payment for labor or services to a worker; to conduct or carry out; something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"; To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to; To bind one's self; to engage; employee means an employee paid under any of the prevailing rate pay systems authorized by subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 5, U S C; To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out; Payment for work, sometimes used to refer to payment based on hours worked instead of duties performed (Compare with salary )
wage earner: someone who works for wages, especially if that wage supports a household
wage earners: plural form of wage earner
wage slave: someone who feels compelled to work in return for wages in order to survive
wage slaves: plural form of wage slave
wage cap: (Spor) In professional sports, a salary cap (often called a wage cap in the United Kingdom) is a limit on the amount of money a team can spend on player salaries, either as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster (or both). Several sports leagues have made salary caps mandatory, both as a method of keeping overall costs down, and in order to balance the league so a wealthy team cannot become dominant simply by buying all the top players. Salary caps are often the major issue in negotiations between management and players' unions
wage labour: Wage labour is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a contract (employment), and the employer buys it, often in a labour market. The products of labour become the employer's property. A wage labourer is a person whose primary means of income is to sell labour in this way
wage a war: carry out a war, go into battle, declare a state of war
wage agreement: deal between an employer to a worker or to their representatives regarding the conditions of the workers salaries
wage claim: the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
wage components: parts of a salary payment, individual items that are part of a worker's wages
wage concession: an agreement to raise wages
wage erosion: decrease in the value of the salary
wage floor: floor below which wages are not allowed to fall
wage freeze: setting of a fixed salary, setting a permanent salary
wage freeze: freeze of wages at a given level
wage packet: People's wages can be referred to as their wage packet. They work long hours in order to take home a fat wage packet
wage pact: salary agreement
wage rate: (Ticaret) The actual or standard pay rate for a labor hour
wage scale: level of a salary that is received
wage scale: a schedule of wages paid for different jobs
wage scale: The scale of wages paid to employees for the various jobs within an industry, factory, or company
wage setter: any financial condition or variable that serves to set wage rates
wage slave: A wage earner whose livelihood is completely dependent on the wages earned
wage war: start a battle, declare a war
wage-earner: one who earns money, one who receives a salary
wage-earning: working for hourly wages rather than fixed e
wage-earning: annual salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor
wage-packet: an envelope that contains your wages
wage-price control: Setting of government guidelines to limit increases in wages and prices. It is one of the most extreme approaches to incomes policy. By controlling wages and prices, governments hope to control inflation and prevent extremes in the business cycle. Countries with highly centralized methods of setting wages tend to have the greatest degree of public or collective regulation of wage and price levels. For example, wage settlements in The Netherlands must be approved by the government, and price increases are investigated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Other countries, including the U.S., have also made efforts at restraining wage and price increases, usually seeking the voluntary cooperation of management and labour. In the U.S., wage-price controls were instituted by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II and by Pres. Richard M. Nixon in the early 1970s, when high inflation combined with rising unemployment to create instability
maximum wage: A state-enforced limit on how much an individual can earn
minimum wage: The lowest rate at which an employer can legally pay an employee; usually expressed as pay per hour
tip wage credit: A law that allows an employer to count tips received by an employee toward the latter's minimum wage
tip wage credit: A monetary benefit to an employer under this law
wages: plural form of wage
wages: one's total income for a time period
wages: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wage
wages: {n} hire or reward of service
Award wage: A rate of pay set by an industrial court or tribunal for a particular occupation
competitive wage rate: A payment to employees for work that is generally equivalent to the payment made to others performing similar work
reservation wage: (Ekonomi) Reservation Wage is a concept in Labor economics which suggests that each worker has a specific wage rate whereby they are induced to perform paid market work. Wages offered below a worker's reservation wage would keep said worker from participating in the labor force
waged: Waged is the past tense and past participle of wage
waged: past of , wage
waged: Waged workers receive money regularly for doing a job. Waged work is work that you are paid to do. the influx of women into the waged workforce They want secure, waged employment
wages: The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms
wages: An amount paid to workers, generally on an hourly basis Wages are a workers income
wages: One of the four products contained in P E I Job Futures This product, the 2000 Wage and Salary Survey, provides information on wages paid by employers in Prince Edward Island by detailed occupation Click here for definitions of the terms used in the 2000 Wage and Salary Survey
wages: The payment for work or services to workers - the money people are paid at their jobs
wages: The general term applied to the earnings of the factor of production, labour
wages: See Wage, n
wages: Any earnings paid for services rendered to a public employer in New York City or New York State
wages: That part of wealth which is the return to labor
wages: include salary or any other pecuniary remuneration as may be prescribed
wages: Labor's share of profit
wages: Dollars paid based on the number of hours worked
wages: include every form of remuneration payable for a given period to an employee for personal services The term includes the market value of board, lodging, laundry, fuel, and any other advantage that can be estimated in money which the employee receives from the employer as part of the employee's remuneration
wages: This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others
wages: a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward
wages: A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire
wages: {i} compensation for work; just reward, recompense
wages: ones total income for a time period
wages: a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
wages: Payment made to employees of a business for their work on behalf of the business
wages: the economic return on labor
wages: plural of wage
wages: money earned for an hour's or day's or week's work (by shop and factory workers, etc )
wages: Money paid to employees in exchange for their labour •Employment
wages: Employee earnings
waging: present participle of wage

wage

Turkish pronunciation

weyc

Synonyms

carry out, conduct, do, engage in, fulfill, make, practice, proceed with, prosecute, pursue, undertake

Antonyms

cease, halt, stop

Pronunciation

/ˈwāʤ/ /ˈweɪʤ/

Etymology

[ 'wAj ] (noun.) 14th century. 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.