wage

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /weɪʤ/

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Noun

Singular wage

Plural wages

1. (countable); (often plural) Wages is the money a person is paid for doing their job.
   • Synonyms: pay, income and salary

   Only 6 percent of the wage earners in this country earn more than $ 100,000.

   They are working for minimum wage or $5 an hour.

   The workers were demanding higher wages.

   The average hourly wage rose only 2.8% last year.

Verb

Plain form wage

Third-person singular wages

Past tense waged

Past participle waged

Present participle waging

1. (transitive) If you wage a battle, war, or campaign for or against something, you fight or work hard for or against it.
   • Synonyms: fight and prosecute

   After his death in 1990, a five-year battle was waged in court for control of the $72 million estate.

   The Iranians hate Iraq for the war that they waged against them for eight years.

   This is the beginning of a long legal battle, similar to the campaign waged against the tobacco industry.