wage
wage is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
- transitive verb. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- transitive verb. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
- transitive verb. To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- transitive verb. To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
- transitive verb. To give security for the performance of.
- intransitive verb. To bind one's self; to engage.
- transitive verb. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
- transitive verb. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
- noun. something that remunerates
"wages were paid by check"
"he wasted his pay on drink"
- verb. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
"Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"
Synonyms
earnings, pay, remuneration, salary, engage
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wage:
Common word forms
waged, wager, wages, waging, wageless
Words from these letters
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