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Definition for: wage

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See also Wage

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French wage , a northern variant of Old French guage , gage, from Old Franconian *waddi (cognate with Old English wedd ), from Germanic *wadja .

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /weɪʤ/
    Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

Singular
wage

Plural
wages

wage ( plural wages )

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

Related terms

Translations

  • Arabic: اجر (’ájr) m .
  • Chinese: 工資, 工资 (gōngzī)
  • Dutch: loon n . , salaris n .
  • Estonian: palk
  • Finnish: palkka, ansiotulo
  • French: salaire m .
  • German: Lohn m .
  • Indonesian: gaji
  • Interlingua: paga, salario
  • Italian: salario m .
  • Japanese: 給料 (きゅうりょう, kyūryō)
  • Korean: 임금 (imgeum)
  • Kurdish: meaş (ku) m . , miz (ku) m . , muçe (ku) m . , destheq (ku) f .
  • Persian: مزد (mōzd), دست‌مزد (dăst-mōzd), کارمزد (kär-mōzd)
  • Portuguese: salário m . , ordenado m . , remuneração f .
  • Romanian: plată f . , salariu n . , leafă f .
  • Russian: жалованье (žálovan’je) n . , заработная плата (zarabótnaja pláta) f . , зарплата (zarpláta) f . ( coll. )
  • Slovak: mzda f .
  • Spanish: salario m .
  • Swedish: lön c .

Derivative words

Verb

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

Infinitive
to wage

Third person singular
wages

Simple past
waged

Past participle
waged

Present participle
waging

  1. to conduct or carry out.
    to wage war

Other Translations for "wage"

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Braille 8 Dot
Sign Language Spelling
Morse Codewage
Hex77 e1 e7 65
Pig Latinageway

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