wage
Meanings
noun
- An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
verb
- To wager, bet.
- To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- To employ for wages; to hire.
- To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- To give security for the performance of.
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Etymology
From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.
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