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Etymology
Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, gage, from Old Franconian *waddi (cognate with Old English wedd), from Germanic *wadja.

Pronunciation
IPA|/weɪʤ/
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Noun
en-noun

1. an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of Wikipedia:Labour (economics)|work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.

Related terms
earnings
pay
salary
wages

Translations
trans-top|money paid to a worker
Arabic: ARchar|اجر (�ájr) m
Catalan: salari m, sou m, paga f, honorari m, estipendi m, remuneració f, retribució f
Chinese: 工�, 工� (g�ngzī)
Czech: t-|cs|mzda|f
Dutch: t+|nl|loon|n, t+|nl|salaris|n
Estonian: palk
Finnish: palkka, ansiotulo
French: t+|fr|salaire|m
German: t+|de|Lohn|m
Indonesian: t+|id|gaji|xs=Indonesian
Interlingua: paga, salario
Italian: t-|it|salario|m
Japanese: 給� (������, kyūry�)
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Korean: �� (imgeum)
Kurdish: t|ku|mea�|m, t+|ku|miz|m, t|ku|muçe|m, t|ku|destheq|f
Persian: FAchar|�زد (m�zd), FAchar|دست��زد (d�st-m�zd), FAchar|کار�زد (kär-m�zd)
Portuguese: t+|pt|salário|m, t+|pt|ordenado|m, t+|pt|remuneração|f
Romanian: plat� f, salariu n, leaf� f
Russian: жалован�е (žálovan�je) n, за�або�на� пла�а (zarabótnaja pláta) f, за�пла�а (zarpláta) f italbrac|coll.
Slovak: t-|sk|mzda|f
Spanish: t-|es|salario|m
Swedish: t+|sv|lön|c
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Derived terms
wage moderation

Verb
en-verb|wag|ing

1. to conduct or carry out.

#: to wage war

Translations
trans-top|to conduct or carry out
Finnish: t+|fi|ryhtyä
Icelandic: heyja stríð (to wage war), heyja
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Portuguese: t-|pt|conduzir
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