Usually means: Payment for work or services.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wage: Merriam-Webster
  3. wage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wage, wage: Wordnik
  8. wage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wage: Wiktionary
  10. wage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wage: Dictionary.com
  14. wage (n.), wage (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Wage (disambiguation), Wage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wage: Rhymezone
  20. wage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wage: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. wage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. wage: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. wage: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. WAGE: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Wage: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  7. Wage: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  8. wage: Legal dictionary
  9. wage: Financial dictionary
  10. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WAGE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. wage: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wage: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See waged as well.)

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

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