wage
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.
Noun 1 meaning
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.
“Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.”
Verb 2 meanings
To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
Etymology
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 *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”).
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WAGE at a glance
WAGE has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (W 4 + A 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,335 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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