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wage Verb

— If you wage a battle, war, or campaign for or against something, you fight or work hard for or against it. After his death in 1990, a five-year battle was waged in court for control of the $72 million estate. the Iranians hate Iraq for the war that they waged against them for eight years. This is the beginning of a long legal battle, similar to the campaign waged against the tobacco industry.

wage

— noun (= pay, earnings) something that remunerates wages were paid by check he wasted his pay on drink they saved a quarter of all their earnings — verb carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe

Synonyms wage synonyms

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wage English » English

salary pay wages remuneration earnings stipend fee payment income reward hire emolument compensation engage conduct wage rate undertake rent price make lead labour cost guide gain drive do cost channel bring attempt work venture transact to carry on take tackle sugar strike out steer start sheath set out set about set revenue result render refund recompense reach

Topics wage topics

What do people use wage to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Earn
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Price
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Fight against something bad
Social behavior Conflict

War

Conjugation wage conjugation

How do you conjugate wage?

wage · verb

Examples wage examples

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Simple sentences

Would you work for minimum wage?
The union was modest in its wage demands.
My monthly wage is 300,000 yen.
Let others wage wars, you, fortunate Austria, marry.
The minimum wage in Okinawa is 642 yen per hour.
They're barely paid minimum wage.
What's the minimum wage in your country?
There's no minimum wage here.
Germany has no minimum wage.
What's the average wage per hour in your country?
Everyone working for us earns more than the minimum wage.
The management said that a wage increase was out of the question.
If you want your workers to be happy, you need to pay them a decent wage.
Tom and Mary were discussing the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage.
What's the minimum wage in Australia?
Some workers don't even earn a living wage.
What's the minimum wage in Ghana?
Businesses should pay a fair wage to their employees.
What's the minimum wage in Germany?
The real value of the minimum wage has fallen by nearly one-third since its peak in 1968.
Mary said that she would reveal all of her employer's secrets if he did not raise her wage.

Movie subtitles

You will continue at your current wage.
Do you wanna be wage slaves?
Well, what makes wage slaves?
You sweat and drive us, but you don't give us a living wage for our blood and sweat.
Though, you can write it in your papers. Let them know that no nation will get the medicine unless it undertakes not to wage war!
You just pay him a wage and take all the crop.
Working hours, wage cuts. Synthetic food, the quality of the sawdust in the bread.
So long, you wage slaves.
You want to wage war with goyim, want to become a Mordechai who raised 75,000 for Esther, then you must take off your goy clothes first.
The men from Dowlais will work for any wage, so all our wages must come down.
Care to take a wage on it, Mr. Bush?
I draw my wage, milords, as servant to Isaac of York in Sheffield town.
If I agree these terms, will you pledge to wage no further wars?
Do you see? Ingratitude is the world's wage.
They wage wars on us, cut our settlers' throats, burn our farms, dream of throwing us in the sea.
What possessed the Emperor to wage war on Prussia?
To wage it with courage.
Peoples don't wage war against other peoples, Geoffrey.
And such a silly, frightened womanish war as only a woman would wage.
Working hours, wage cuts, the synthetic food, the quality of the sawdust in the bread.
What about the guys we'd be giving jobs to, and paying a living wage for a change?
Ingratitude is the world's wage.
So long, you wage-slaves.
Then, I put it as wage?
If it's a good wage.
You never mention business or baseball or television or wage freezes or Senate probes.
That's the upholsterer's wage.
The wage is not very high.
Your uncle Bertie's given himself ulcers trying to make them more efficient and tell the men it means a bigger wage packet.
How would we go on for wage claims?

News and current affairs

Unions, too, are resisting the necessary wage reductions, and public and private debtors fear the prospect of insolvency if their assets and revenues are assessed at a lower value, while their debts remain unchanged.
When they eventually find work, it will be at a much lower wage.
That would widen the wage distribution, create jobs, and maintain the living standard of the poor.
Whereas some German companies persuaded workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
Nor are the non-poor faring particularly well, as wage growth has remained virtually flat for a very long time, even as corporate profits are booming.
Falling employment lowers wage and salary incomes.
Productivity growth was strong, but far outpaced wage growth, and workers' real hourly compensation declined, on average, even for those with a university education.
In particular, the US is underinvesting in three major areas that help countries to create and retain high-wage jobs: skills and training, infrastructure, and research and development.
This proposition overturned the previous Keynesian orthodoxy that macroeconomic policy should aim at full employment, with the control of inflation left to wage policy.
Demand for low-cost Mexican labor by US employers and the 10-1 wage gap between the two countries pushes 350,000 Mexicans to risk their lives every year for better paid jobs north of the border.
The more trade unions defend existing wage structures, and the lower productivity growth is, the longer the slump will be.
Such a pact would oblige governments to use fiscal and wage policies as well as overall economic policy to achieve external balance.
The Spanish government, for example, could have met Spain's building boom and foreign-trade deficit with tax increases or by urging domestic wage restraint.
A wage premium based solely on citizenship is grating.
Contrary to popular perception, the public-sector wage bill is only of marginal importance.
Here, too, the record since 1980 has been patchy, despite the huge deflationary pressure exerted by low-wage competition from Asia.
In the 1960's, Keynesian policies delivered the illusion that everyone was benefiting, with high levels of employment and significant wage growth.
The reason is clear: by taking time to set the stage for liberalization, governments hoped to limit the initial spike in price inflation, thereby avoiding a wage-price spiral and curbing capital flight.
Falling employment lowers wage and salary incomes. The higher prices of food and energy depress real incomes further.
The US and Europe are in direct competition with Brazil, China, India, and other emerging economies, where wage levels are sometimes one-quarter those in high-income countries (if not even lower).
If inflation continued, the country's real exchange rate would appreciate, the demand for its exports would fall, unemployment would increase, and that would dampen wage and price pressures.

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