Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
- noun The price of labor in an economy.
- noun A fitting return; a recompense.
- transitive verb To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gage; a pledge; a stake.
- noun That which is paid for a service rendered; what is paid for labor; hire: now usually in the plural.
- noun Synonyms Pay, Hire, etc. See
salary . - To pledge; bet; stake on a chance; lay; wager.
- To venture on; hazard; attempt; encounter.
- To engage in, as in a contest; carry on, as a war; undertake.
- To let out for pay.
- To hire for pay; engage or employ for wages.
- To pay wages to.
- In ceramics, to knead, work, or temper, as potters' clay.
- To contend; battle.
- To serve as a pledge or stake for something else; be opposed as equal stakes in a wager; be equal in value: followed by with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To bind one's self; to engage.
- noun obsolete That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
- noun That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See
Wages . - noun See under 1st
Board . - transitive verb To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager.
- transitive verb To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- transitive verb To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
- transitive verb obsolete To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- transitive verb obsolete To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
- transitive verb (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.
- transitive verb (O. Eng. Law) to give gage, or security, for joining in the
duellum , or combat. See Wager of battel, underWager , n. - transitive verb (Law) to give security to make one's law. See Wager of law, under
Wager , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An amount of money paid to a worker for a
specified quantity ofwork , usually expressed on an hourly basis. - verb transitive, obsolete To
wager ,bet . - verb transitive, obsolete To
employ for wages; tohire . - verb transitive To
conduct orcarry out (a war or other contest).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
- noun something that remunerates
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hence, I can't agree that the min wage is coercive.
Coercion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If the min wage is coercive, then all law is coercive.
Coercion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Instead he takes the sane position: a large pool of cheap, foreign labor pushes down wages for US Citizens (who wants wage competition with a guy who thinks the min wage is a great salary?) and, in a post-9/11 world, how much sense does it make to have 12-20 million unidentified people walking around the country?
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All future pay raises must be frozen until the min wage is raised to $7.25 an hour for all 50 states in America!
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South into the unionized mills and you made a pass at organizing widely — you know, have what you call a wage increase drive, and you'd negotiate.
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Increasing min wage is ALWAYS a good idea, since as wages go up, there’s more people willing to take those jobs, hence, decreased unemployment and a more competent work force.
Think Progress » Ohio Right Wing Spreads Minimum Wage Jobs Myth 2006
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(voice-over): At CASA Latina, volunteers say what they call wage theft from illegal immigrants is on the rise, partly because of the bad economy and partly because of discrimination.
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Were the workmen to enter into a contrary combination of the same kind, not to accept of a certain wage under a certain penalty, the law would punish them very severely; and if it dealt impartially, it would treat the masters in the same manner.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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Were the workmen to enter into a contrary combination of the same kind, not to accept of a certain wage under a certain penalty, the law would punish them very severely; and if it dealt impartially, it would treat the masters in the same manner.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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And that means admitting minimum wage is too high.
vanishedone commented on the word wage
WeirdNet is accurate enough, I suppose, but what an opaque way of putting it.
April 7, 2009
alexaguado123 commented on the word wage
salario
September 17, 2013