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WAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that remunerates

Example:

they saved a quarter of all their earnings

Synonyms:

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)

Example:

Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe

Synonyms:

engage; wage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

Leah had been saying something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked—She gets good wages, I guess?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance.

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

I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here.

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

I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage; and was enabled to gratify my aunt exceedingly by reporting that the tenant inherited her feud, and waged incessant war against donkeys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hated by his kind and by mankind, indomitable, perpetually warred upon and himself waging perpetual war, his development was rapid and one-sided.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But when nothing remained of all her three month's work except a heap of ashes and the money in her lap, Jo looked sober, as she sat on the floor, wondering what she ought to do about her wages.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Doctor was very fond of eating, and would have a good dinner every day; and Mrs. Grant, instead of contriving to gratify him at little expense, gave her cook as high wages as they did at Mansfield Park, and was scarcely ever seen in her offices.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for the seafaring man with one leg.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An interview with a surly gatekeeper and a surlier foreman, both of whom were appeased with the coin of the realm, put me on the track of Bloxam; he was sent for on my suggesting that I was willing to pay his day's wages to his foreman for the privilege of asking him a few questions on a private matter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)