WAGE


Meaning of WAGE in English

(~s, waging, ~d)

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

1.

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

His ~s have gone up...

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

N-COUNT

2.

If a person, group, or country ~s 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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