Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - wage
Wage
wage
n. & v. --n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a fixed regular payment, usu. daily or weekly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. to a manual or unskilled worker (cf. SALARY). 2 (in sing. or pl.) requital (the wages of sin is death). 3 (in pl.) Econ. the part of total production that rewards labour rather than remunerating capital. --v.tr. carry on (a war, conflict, or contest). Phrases and idioms living wage a wage that affords the means of normal subsistence. wage-claim = pay-claim (see PAY(1)). wage-earner a person who works for wages. wages council a board of workers' and employers' representatives determining wages where there is no collective bargaining. wage slave a person dependent on income from labour in conditions like slavery. Etymology: ME f. AF & ONF wage, OF g(u)age, f. Gmc, rel. to GAGE(1), WED
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I. noun see: wed Date: 14th century 1. a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis, the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production, recompense, reward, ~less adjective II. verb (~d; waging) Etymology: Middle English, to offer surety, put up as a stake, hire, from Anglo-French *~r, gager, from ~ Date: 14th century transitive verb to engage in or carry on , intransitive verb to be in process of occurring ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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