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Definition wage

Etymology 1

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *wadd? (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadj? (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed?- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic ???? (wadi). Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.

Noun

wage (plural wages)

1. An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wagen (“to pledge”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wagier, a northern variant of Old French guagier (whence modern French gager), itself either from guage or from a derivative of Frankish *waddi, *wadja, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *wadiare from *wadium.

Verb

wage (third-person singular simple present wages, present participle waging, simple past and past participle waged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
4. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
5. (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
6. (obsolete, law, Britain) To give security for the performance of.

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