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wage

Main Entry:: ¹wage
Pronunciation:: \ˈwāj\
Function:: 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 bplural : the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production2: recompense, reward —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction <the wages of sin is death — Romans 6:23 (Revised Standard Version)>

— wage·less

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\ˈwāj-ləs\ adjective

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