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wage

(wāj)

1. A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.

2. wages The price of labor in an economy.

3. often wages(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense: the wages of sin.

tr.v. waged, wag·ing, wag·es

To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

[Middle English, from Old North French, of Germanic origin.]

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wage

(weɪdʒ)

1. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms)

a. (often plural) payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis. Compare salary

b. (as modifier): wage freeze.

2. (Economics) (plural) economics 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. (often plural) recompense, return, or yield

4. an obsolete word for pledge

vb (tr)

5. to engage in

6. obsolete to pledge or wager

7. (Commerce) archaic another word for hire¹, hire²

[C14: from Old Northern French wagier to pledge, from wage, of Germanic origin; compare Old English weddian to pledge, wed]

ˈwageless adj

ˈwagelessness n

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wage

(weɪdʒ)

n., v. waged, wag•ing. n.

1. Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services. Compare living wage, minimum wage.

2. wages, recompense or return: The wages of sin is death.

3. Obs. a pledge or security.

v.t.

4. to carry on (a battle, argument, etc.): to wage war.

5. Obs.

a. to stake or wager.

b. to pledge.

v.i.

6. Obs. to contend; struggle.

[1275–1325; Middle English: pledge, security < Anglo-French; Old French guage gage¹< Vulgar Latin *wadium < Germanic (see wed)]

wage

, wager - Wage once meant "pledge, security" and wager was defined as "solemn pledge" or "undertaking," from French wagier, "to pledge."

wage

Past participle: waged
Gerund: waging

Imperative
wage
wage

Present
I wage
you wage
he/she/it wages
we wage
you wage
they wage

Preterite
I waged
you waged
he/she/it waged
we waged
you waged
they waged

Present Continuous
I am waging
you are waging
he/she/it is waging
we are waging
you are waging
they are waging

Present Perfect
I have waged
you have waged
he/she/it has waged
we have waged
you have waged
they have waged

Past Continuous
I was waging
you were waging
he/she/it was waging
we were waging
you were waging
they were waging

Past Perfect
I had waged
you had waged
he/she/it had waged
we had waged
you had waged
they had waged

Future
I will wage
you will wage
he/she/it will wage
we will wage
you will wage
they will wage

Future Perfect
I will have waged
you will have waged
he/she/it will have waged
we will have waged
you will have waged
they will have waged

Future Continuous
I will be waging
you will be waging
he/she/it will be waging
we will be waging
you will be waging
they will be waging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been waging
you have been waging
he/she/it has been waging
we have been waging
you have been waging
they have been waging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been waging
you will have been waging
he/she/it will have been waging
we will have been waging
you will have been waging
they will have been waging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been waging
you had been waging
he/she/it had been waging
we had been waging
you had been waging
they had been waging

Conditional
I would wage
you would wage
he/she/it would wage
we would wage
you would wage
they would wage

Past Conditional
I would have waged
you would have waged
he/she/it would have waged
we would have waged
you would have waged
they would have waged

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Noun	1.	wage - something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" pay, remuneration, salary, earnings 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; "they worked for $30 and found" 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 regular payment - a payment made at regular times payroll, paysheet - a list of employees and their salaries; "the company had a long payroll"
Verb	1.	wage - carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" engage fight, struggle, contend - be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country" put up, provide, offer - mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"

wage

noun

1. (often plural) payment, pay, earnings, remuneration, fee, reward, compensation, income, allowance, recompense, stipend, emolument efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line

plural noun

1. rewards, returns, deserts, retribution, just deserts, requital He was reaping the wages of sin.

verb

1. engage in, conduct, pursue, carry on, undertake, practise, prosecute, proceed with the three factions that had been waging a civil war

Quotations
"For the labourer is worthy of his hire" Bible: St. Luke

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wage

noun

1. Payment for work done:

compensation, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, pay, remuneration, salary, stipend.

2. Something justly deserved.Often used in plural:

comeuppance, desert (often used in plural), due, guerdon, recompense, reward.

Informal: lump (used in plural).

Idioms: what is coming to one, what one has coming.

verb

To engage in (a war or campaign, for example):

carry on, carry out, conduct.

Translations

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salario sueldo construir emprender hacer

wage

[weɪdʒ]

A. N

1. (= rate per week, year, etc) → sueldo m, salario m (more frm)
a basic wage of £55 a week → un sueldo or (more frm) salario base de 55 libras semanales
he gets a good wage → gana un buen sueldo
those on high/low wages → las personas que ganan sueldos or (more frm) salarios altos/bajos
minimum wage → salario mínimo
see also living D

2. wages (= money received) → paga f, sueldo m
a day's wages → la paga or el sueldo de un día (Agr) → un jornal
I get my wages on Fridays → me pagan los viernes
the wages of sin is death → el pecado se paga con la muerte

B. VT [+ war] → hacer; [+ campaign] → llevar a cabo, hacer
to wage war against or on sb → hacer la guerra a algn
to wage war against or on inflation → luchar contra la inflación, hacer la guerra a la inflación

C. CPD wage agreement N → convenio m salarial
wage bill N → gastos mpl de nómina, gastos mpl salariales
wage claim N (Brit) → reivindicación f salarial
wage clerk N = wages clerk wage contract N = wage agreement wage costs NPL → costes mpl del factor trabajo
wage demand N → reivindicación f salarial
wage differential N → diferencia f salarial
wage earner N → asalariado/a m/f
we are both wage earners → los dos somos asalariados
she is the family wage earner → ella es la que mantiene a la familia
wage freeze N → congelación f salarial
wage increase N → aumento m salarial
wage levels NPL → salarios mpl, niveles mpl salariales
wage negotiations NPL → negociaciones fpl salariales
wage packet N (esp Brit) (= envelope with pay) → sobre m de la paga (fig) → paga f
wage restraint N → moderación f salarial
wage rise N → aumento m salarial
wages bill N = wage bill wage scale N → escala f salarial
wages clerk N → habilitado/a m/f
wage settlement N → acuerdo m salarial
wage slave N → currante mf
wage slip N → nómina f, hoja f salarial
wages snatch N → robo m de nóminas
wage talks NPL → negociaciones fpl salariales
wage worker N (US) → asalariado/a m/f

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wage¹

(weidʒ) verb

to carry on or engage in (especially a war). The North waged war on/against the South.hacer, librar, dar

wage²

(weidʒ) noun

(also ˈwages noun plural) a regular, usually weekly rather than monthly, payment for the work that one does. He spends all his wages on books; What is his weekly wage?salario, sueldo

ˈwage-packet noun

1. the packet in which wages are paid. The cashier puts the workmen's money in wage-packets. sobre con la paga

2. wages. Because of heavier taxation, my wage-packet has been getting smaller.paga, sueldo

wage

→ sueldo

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Feminists, such as Federici (2004) argued that women's oppression 'should be interpreted as the effect of a social system of production that does not recognize the production and reproduction of the worker as social-economic activity, and a source of capital accumulation, but mystifies it instead as a natural resource or a personal service, while profiting from the wageless condition of the labor involved.

Women and revolution: Marx and the dialectic

If we be fools of chance, indeed, and tend No wither, then the blinder fools in this: That, loving good, we live, in scorn of bliss, Its wageless servants to the evil end.

Evolution and the struggle of love in Emily Pfeiffer's Sonnets

First, it is a vital addition to recent debates about the nature of "precarity" (Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class [London: Bloomsbury, 2011]), "wageless life" (Michael Denning, "Wageless Life," New Left Review, 66 [2010]: 79-97), and worlds without work (Tania Murray Li, "To Make Live or Let Die?

James Ferguson, Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution

ion of a psychological and social advantage over the landlord as they cannot be, then, accessed easily to serve their wageless tasks.

MULTIPLE CONVENTIONS OF UNPAID LABOUR (BEGAR) IN SINDH RICE BELT: DUALISTIC RESISTANCE and COOPERATION IN SHARECROPPING ARRANGEMENTS

The offensive was launched in precisely those parts of the working class that capital had formerly attempted to contain within silent, often wageless reserves of the relative surplus population, that is, in North American ghettoes, in Caribbean islands, or in "backward" regions of the Mediterranean.

Karl Marx, the theft of wood, and working-class composition: a contribution to the current debate

Barbara Michael Denning's article 'Wageless Life' highlights how three quarters of the economy around the globe is not generated through paid work.

Life after work: a roundtable discussion on work and precarity

What goes around comes around and it will be coming to all of us lucky enough to have a job if we turn the other way when our young people are encouraged by civil servants to spend six wageless weeks learning how to stack shelves or collect glasses in the hope of getting a real job at the end of it.

Give kids a job, not false hope; sunday mail WE SAY

A more general argument is that Marxists should start with unemployment, or 'wageless life', rather than from the perspective of wage-labour (Denning, 2010).

Marxism and informal labour

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, THE 'JOBLESS AND WAGELESS RECOVERY'

Occupy our occupations: why "we are the 99%" resonates with working people and what we can do to fix the American workplace

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