Waging
noun
1.
Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week.
Compare living wage, minimum wage.
2.
Usually, wages. Economics. the share of the products of industry received by labor for its work (as distinct from the share going to capital).
3.
Usually, wages. (used with a singular or plural verb) recompense or return:
The wages of sin is death.
4.
Obsolete. a pledge or security.
verb (used with object), waged, waging.
5.
to carry on (a battle, war, conflict, argument, etc.):
to wage war against a nation.
6.
Chiefly British Dialect. to hire.
7.
Obsolete.
to stake or wager.
to pledge.
verb (used without object), waged, waging.
8.
Obsolete. to contend; struggle.
noun
1.
(often pl) payment in return for work or services, esp that made to workmen on a daily, hourly, weekly, or piece-work basis Compare salary
(as modifier): wage freeze
2.
(pl) (economics) the portion of the national income accruing to labour as earned income, as contrasted with the unearned income accruing to capital in the form of rent, interest, and dividends
3.
(often pl) recompense, return, or yield
4.
an obsolete word for pledge
verb (transitive)
5.
to engage in
6.
(obsolete) to pledge or wager
7.
(archaic) another word for hire (sense 1), hire (sense 2)
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