WAGE


Meaning of WAGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ weɪdʒ ]

( wages, waging, waged)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Someone’s wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do.

His wages have gone up...

This may end efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line.

N-COUNT

2.

If a person, group, or country wages a campaign or a war, they start it and continue it over a period of time.

...the three factions that had been waging a civil war...

VERB : V n

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