wage
• noun (also wages) 1 a fixed regular payment for work, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis. 2 the result or effect of doing something wrong or unwise: the wages of sin. • verb carry on (a war or campaign). — DERIVATIVES waged adjective. — ORIGIN Old French, related to GAGE1 and WED.
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