Definition of wage

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Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

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Bond Service :: Bond service () The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
Pay :: Pay (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier..
Portage :: Portage (n.) A sailor's wages when in port.
Hireling :: Hireling (a.) Serving for hire or wages; venal; mercenary.
Truck :: Truck (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
Stipendiarian :: Stipend (v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Sullage :: Sullage (n.) Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.
Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..
Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Boss :: Boss (n.) A swage or die used for shaping metals.
Deserve :: Deserve (v. t.) To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise..
Towage :: Towage (v.) The act of towing.
Swage :: Swage (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type..
Industrial :: Industrial (a.) Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights..
Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
Earning :: Earning (n.) That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.
Fight :: Fight (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause..
Portage :: Portage (n.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
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