wagenoun [ S ]
uk/weɪdʒ/us/weɪdʒ/also wages [ plural ]B1 a particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a college education:
a very low/high wage
an hourly/daily/weekly/annual wage
He gets/earns/is paid a good wage, because he works for a fair employer.
The job pays very low wages.
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- Is she paid a regular wage or is it by commission only?
- Deadlock over wage levels has prevented an agreement being reached.
- There will be an increase in tax for those earning in excess of twice the national average wage.
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Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- bread and butter
- breadwinner
- bring sth in
- danger money
- draw
- earn
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- hustle
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- strike pay
- venal
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wageverb [ T ]
uk/weɪdʒ/us/weɪdʒ/formalto fight a war or organize a series of activities in order to achieve something:
Doesn't the president need Congress' permission to wage war on another country?
They've been waging a long campaign to change the law.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fisticuffs
- fray
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
- slug it out idiom
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