Wage

Noun

 * 1) an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.

Derived terms

 * hourly wage
 * lost wages

Related terms

 * earnings
 * pay
 * salary
 * wages

Verb

 * 1)  To wager, bet.
 * 2)  To employ for wages; to hire.
 * 3) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I:
 * with the grete goodes we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce [...].
 * 1)  To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
 * to wage war

Derived terms

 * wager (agent noun)

Adjectives for Wage
preposterous; satisfactory; aggregate; hard-earned; comparative; prevailing; monetary; actual; scanty; unsteady; uncertain; exorbitant; inflated; youthful; daily; living.

Thesaurus
base pay, carry on, compensation, conduct, dismissal wage, do, earnings, employ, engage in, escalator clause, escalator plan, exercise, financial remuneration, follow, go in for, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, practice, prosecute, purchasing power, pursue, real wages, remuneration, salary, severance pay, sliding scale, specialize in, tackle, take on, take to, take up, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, undertake, use, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, work at

Etymology
, from wage, a northern variant of  gauge, gage, from  *waddi, wadja (cognate with  wedd), from  from. Akin to veþja "to pledge",  wadi. More at wed.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Arabic: ,
 * Catalan: salari, sou , paga , honorari , estipendi , remuneració , retribució
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 薪金,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: palk
 * Finnish: palkka, ansiotulo,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ხელფასი ('khel'pa'si)
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: משכורת, שכר
 * Hindi: तनख़्वाह, वेतन, मासिक वेतन
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:


 * Interlingua: paga, salario
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, 급료, , 삯, 품삯
 * Kurdish:, , , destheq
 * Persian: (mōzd),  (dăst-mōzd),  (kär-mōzd)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: plată, salariu , leafă
 * Russian:, , жалование
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ücret, gündelik

Derived terms

 * wage moderation

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 發動, 发动
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: führen


 * Icelandic: heyja stríð (to wage war), heyja
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,