Definition of Wage

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Definition of Wage

Wage

To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.

To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.

To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.

To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.

To give security for the performance of.

To bind one's self; to engage.

That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

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Wage Quotations

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
David Letterman

The real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas Sowell

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
Georges Clemenceau

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Graham Greene

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
John L. Lewis

Wage Translations

wage in Afrikaans is salaris
wage in Dutch is gage, salaris, bezoldiging, loon
wage in Finnish is palkka
wage in French is appointements, salaire
wage in German is Lohn
wage in Italian is stipendio
wage in Spanish is salario, sueldo, jornal

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