Wage Synonyms & Definitions

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• WageDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To expose ones self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
2. (v. t.) To give security for the performance of.
3. (v. i.) To bind ones self; to engage.
4. (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
5. (v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
6. (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
7. (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
8. (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
9. (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

• WagerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet.
2. (v. t.) To hazard on the issue of a contest, or on some question that is to be decided, or on some casualty; to lay; to stake; to bet.
3. (v. t.) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
4. (v. i.) To make a bet; to lay a wager.
5. (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.