Wage (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week.
  2. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).
  3. recompense or return: The wages of sin is death.
  4. a pledge or security.
verb (used with object), waged, wag·ing.
  1. to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.): to wage war against a nation.
  2. to hire.
  3. Obsolete.
    • to stake or wager.
    • to pledge.
verb (used without object), waged, wag·ing.
  1. to contend; struggle.
noun
    • payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis
    • (as modifier)
  2. 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
  3. recompense, return, or yield
  4. an obsolete word for pledge
verb (tr)
  1. to engage in
  2. to pledge or wager
  3. archaic another word for hire (def. 1), hire (def. 2)
Wage (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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