wage

IPA: wˈeɪdʒ

(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

(transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
(transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
(transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
(transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
(transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
(obsolete, law, UK) To give security for the performance of

Examples of "wage" in Sentences

And that means admitting minimum wage is too high.
Hence, I can't agree that the min wage is coercive.
If the min wage is coercive, then all law is coercive.
All future pay raises must be frozen until the min wage is raised to $7.25 an hour for all 50 states in America!
South into the unionized mills and you made a pass at organizing widely — you know, have what you call a wage increase drive, and you'd negotiate.
Increasing min wage is ALWAYS a good idea, since as wages go up, there’s more people willing to take those jobs, hence, decreased unemployment and a more competent work force.
(voice-over): At CASA Latina, volunteers say what they call wage theft from illegal immigrants is on the rise, partly because of the bad economy and partly because of discrimination.
Were the workmen to enter into a contrary combination of the same kind, not to accept of a certain wage under a certain penalty, the law would punish them very severely; and if it dealt impartially, it would treat the masters in the same manner.
Instead he takes the sane position: a large pool of cheap, foreign labor pushes down wages for US Citizens (who wants wage competition with a guy who thinks the min wage is a great salary?) and, in a post-9/11 world, how much sense does it make to have 12-20 million unidentified people walking around the country?