Wage



GRE Barron 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.开始, 进行 ( 战争, 运动)
• ［英］ v.开始, 进行 ( 战争, 运动) ( begin and continue a war)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, pledge, recompense, from Anglo-French wage, gage, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German wetti pledge — more at wed
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis — often used in plural
  • b. plural the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production
• 2. recompense, reward — usually used in plural butsingular or plural in construction<the wages of sin is death — Romans 6:23 (Revised Standard Version)>
• ? wageless adjective

II. verb (waged; waging)

• Etymology: Middle English, to offer surety, put up as a stake, hire, from Anglo-French *wager, gager, from wage
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • to engage in or carry on <wage war><wage a campaign>
• intransitive verb
  • to be in process of occurring <the riot waged for several hours — American Guide Series: Maryland>

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