wage

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wage[1,noun] wage[2,verb] nominal wages starvation wages

Main Entry: ¹wage
Pronunciation: 'wAj
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, pledge, recompense, from Anglo-French wage, gage, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German wetti pledge -- more at WED
1 a : a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis -- often used in plural b plural : the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production
2 : RECOMPENSE, REWARD -- usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction <the wages of sin is death -- Romans 6:23 (Revised Standard Version)>
- wage·less /'wAj-l&s/ adjective