WAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wage mean? 

• WAGE (noun)
  The noun WAGE has 1 sense:

1. something that remunerates

  Familiarity information: WAGE used as a noun is very rare.

• WAGE (verb)
  The verb WAGE has 1 sense:

1. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)

  Familiarity information: WAGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that remunerates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage

Context example:

they saved a quarter of all their earnings

Hypernyms ("wage" is a kind of...):

regular payment (a payment made at regular times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wage"):

combat pay (extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat)

double time (a doubled wage (for working overtime))

found (food and lodging provided in addition to money)

half-pay (reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time)

living wage (a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably)

merit pay (extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers))

minimum wage (the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law)

pay envelope; pay packet (wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner)

sick pay (wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave)

strike pay (money paid to strikers from union funds)

take-home pay (what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc)

Holonyms ("wage" is a part of...):

payroll; paysheet (a list of employees and their salaries)

• WAGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they wage    ... he / she / it wages   
Past simple: waged   
Past participle: waged   
-ing form: waging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

engage; wage

Context example:

Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe

Hypernyms (to "wage" is one way to...):

contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wage"):

offer; provide; put up (mount or put up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The wages for two is a hundred and board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“You see what the wage brings,” he answered.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And after all, delight is the wage for living.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Declared it myself, waged it myself, ended it myself.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A code specifying the method used by the employer to compute the employee's salary or wages.

(Employee Salary Type, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An establishment was also made of six hundred persons to be my domestics, who had board-wages allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for them very conveniently on each side of my door.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Terminology relevant to the state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.

(CDISC SDTM Employment Status Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A farmer had a faithful and diligent servant, who had worked hard for him three years, without having been paid any wages.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary; the occupation for which you are paid.

(Employment, NCI Thesaurus)

From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)