| 单词 | wage |
| 释义 | wage I. transitive verb 1. dialect < won't be able to wage them, like you wage hands, at sixteen shillings a month — John Masefield > 2. < wage trial by battle > — compare wager of law 3. < wage war > < wage a campaign > < wage a battle > < wage a filibuster > < farmers still wage a losing fight with poor, stony land — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < an intense game of bridge that had been waged en route — New York Times > < we are now waging peace — J.F.Dulles > 4. obsolete 5. intransitive verb < the riot waged for several hours — American Guide Series: Maryland > < controversy wages even more fiercely — O. Elfrida Saunders > II. 1. a. < pelt … would bring about fifty dollars which wasn't a bad wage for their two days' work — Robert Lund > < the starting wage was $17.50 a month — J.L.Marshall > < wage freeze > < wage scale > — often used in plural but sometimes sing. in constr. < a freeman makes himself a servant to another by selling him for a certain time the service he undertakes to do in exchange for wages he is to receive — John Locke > < work by the day at lower wages — Current Biography > — see living wage, minimum wage; compare salary b. wages plural but singular or plural in construction 2. < for the wages of sin is death — Rom 6:23 (Revised Standard Version) > < loving falsehood, ignorant of the wages of uprightness — E.J.Goodspeed > < the gods give thee fair wage and dues of death — A.C.Swinburne > Synonyms: < earn a day's wage > < receives his wages in cash once a week > salary and stipend usually apply to a fixed compensation commonly paid at longer intervals than wages and usually for services that require training or special ability, stipend often applying specially to the pay of a teacher, magistrate, or clergyman or to money received as from a scholarship or pension, and usually implying a relatively small sum < an executive's salary > < the salary of a white-collar worker > < a minister's stipend often includes the use of a house > < a modest stipend from a retirement policy > fee applies to the price asked or paid for the services of a physician, lawyer, artist, or other professional < a lawyer's fee > < a fee for professional services > < pays its authors and illustrators very reasonable fees — Lilo Linke > pay is usually the equivalent of wages, salary, or stipend < a teacher's pay > < a porter's pay > < the pay scale of workers or executives > < a clergyman's pay > hire is archaic in the sense of wages but occurs sometimes in the sense of rental fee < lends his pen for small hires — George Meredith > < the films can be had at a reasonable hire charge — Paper & Print > emolument is bookish except in the plural when it often means the rewards, usually other than pay, of one's work or office < wages include emoluments of value, like pension and insurance benefits, which may accrue to employees out of their employment relationship — C.W.Boyce > < old institutions whose prestige, influence and emoluments of power depend upon the preservation of the old order — John Dewey > < salary £550 with no emoluments — Farmer & Stock-Breeder > < on observing women kissing the veteran Franklin, he asked if that was one of the emoluments of his office — C.G.Bowers > |
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