Meaning of wage | Babel Free

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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
2. 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.
   often, plural
3. Salary, wage.
4. To wager, bet
5. To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
6. To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard
7. To engage in (a war or campaign, for example):carry on, carry out, conduct.
8. To employ for wages; to hire
9. to carry on or engage in (especially a war). The North waged war on/against the South. voer يَشُنُّ حَرْبا водя empreender vést/rozpoutat (válku) führen føre (krig) διεξάγωhacer, librar, dar (sõda) pidama به جنگ وارد شدن käydä faire לַעֲרוֹך जंग करना voditi rat hadat visel vki ellen melancarkan heyja (stríð) intraprendere 行なう (전쟁, 투쟁, 토론 등을) 하다 kariauti uzsākt karu; karot memerangi voerenføreprowadzić, rozpętać بوختېدل، برمخ بيول، برخه اخيستل empreender a purta (război) вести viesť / rozpútať...
   especially
10. To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest)
11. (also ˈwages noun plural) a regular, usually weekly rather than monthly, payment for the work that one does. He spends all his wages on books; What is his weekly wage? loon أَجْر надница salário mzda der Lohn løn μισθός, απολαβέςsalario, sueldo palk مزد palkka salaireשכר मजदूरी mjesečna plaća (munka)bér upah laun, kaup intraprendere 賃金 임금, 급료, 삯 atlyginimas darba alga gaji, upah loonlønn, gasjezarobek معاش salário salariu зарплата výplata plača plata lön, avlöning ค่าจ้าง; ค่าแรง ücret 報酬，薪資 ...
    also
12. A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
13. wages The price of labor in an economy.
14. often wages(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense: the wages of sin.
15. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a. (often plural) payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis. Compare salary
    often plural
16. (Economics) (plural) economics the portion of the national income accruing to labour as earned income, as contrasted with the unearned income accruing to capital in the form of rent, interest, and dividends
    plural
17. (often plural) recompense, return, or yield
    often plural

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Examples

“Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.”

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