Crossword-Solution: WAGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wage | v. t. | To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. |
| Wage | v. t. | To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. |
| Wage | v. t. | To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war. |
| Wage | v. t. | To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out. |
| Wage | v. t. | To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to. |
| Wage | v. t. | To give security for the performance of. |
| Wage | v. i. | To bind one's self; to engage. |
| Wage | v. t. | That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. |
| Wage | v. t. | That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WAGE | anagram | WAEG, WEGA |
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Sentences with WAGE (5)
Civil service wage increases and the cost of peacekeeping forces sent to Liberia are boosting government expenditures and undercutting structural adjustment reforms.
When I see people strut enough to be cut up into bantam cocks, I stand dormant with wonder, and says no more.” It was eventually known that Gabriel, though paid a fixed wage by Bathsheba independent of the fluctuations of agricultural profits, had made an engagement with Boldwood by which Oak was to receive a share of the receipts—a small share certainly, yet it was money of a higher quality than mere wages, and capable of expansion in a way that wages were not.
Low inflation, low wage increases, and the current account surplus put Denmark in a good competitive position for the EC's anticipated single market, although Denmark must cut its VAT and income taxes.
The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour.
For example, both the Social Security and the Minimum Wage laws excluded both agricultural and domestic workers.
Quotes with WAGE (3)
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployme…
People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 275 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).