wage
Definition of wage:
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part of speech: noun
A gage or stake: that for which one labors: wages. Though a plural, wages sometimes has a verb in the singular. " The wages of sin is death."- Rom. vi. 23. " Wages, then, depend mainly upon the demand and supply of labor."- J. S. Mill. In ordinary language the term wages is usually restricted to the remuneration for mechanical or muscular labor, esp. to that which is ordinarily paid at short intervals, as weekly or fortnightly, to workmen. Correctly speaking, however, what is called the fees of professional men, as lawyers, physicians, etc., the salaries of public functionaries, businessmen, etc., the pay of military and naval men, and the like, all are wages. On the other hand, when an author publishes a book, or a shoemaker sells a pair of shoes, the sums received are not wages, though to the seller they are virtually the same thing.
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part of speech: adverb
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: verb
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part of speech: verb
To pledge: to engage in as if by pledge: to carry on, esp. of war: to venture.
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Common misspellings:
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- eage (25.0%)
- wadge (50.0%)
- waqs (25.0%)
Usage examples for wage:
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Thou wert in my service awhile, said Finn, and I mind not that I paid thee any wage for it.
"The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland" – T. W. Rolleston -
Yet with all that, but a very small number of the vast army of women wage workers look upon work as a permanent issue, in the same light as does man.
"Anarchism and Other Essays" – Emma Goldman -
But the wage of the man must cover his own support, and part of the support of his family.
"Problems of Poverty" – John A. Hobson -
That none might wage A civil war again, thus deeply drank Pharsalia's fight the life- blood of her sons.
"Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars" – Lucan
