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wage Noun Also: (wages) the money paid in return for a person's work, esp. when paid weekly or daily rather than monthly: a campaign for higher wages Verb [waging, waged] to engage in (a campaign or war) [Old French wagier to pledge]
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wage noun 1. (often plural) payment, pay, earnings, remuneration, fee, reward, compensation, income, allowance, recompense, stipend, emolument Translationswage1 v wage [weidʒ] to carry on or engage in (especially a war) The North waged war on/against the South. voer يَشُنُّ حَرْبا водя vést/rozpoutat (válku) føre (krig) führen διεξάγω (πόλεμο) hacer (la guerra), librar, dar (sõda) pidama به جنگ وارد شدن käydä sotaa faire (la guerre) לַעֲרוֹך जंग करना voditi rat hadat visel vki ellen melancarkan heyja (stríð) intraprendere 行なう (전쟁 등을) 수행하다 kariauti uzsākt karu; karot memerangi voeren føre (krig) prowadzić, rozpętać empreender a purta (război) вести viesť / rozpútať (vojnu) spustiti se v voditi utkämpa, föra เข้าร่วมต่อสู้ başlatmak, açmak 作(戰) вести (війну) جنگ کرنا tiến hành 作(战) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers. Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts But what all England did not know De Vac had gleaned from scraps of conversation dropped in the armory: that Henry was even now negotiating with the leaders of foreign mercenaries, and with Louis IX of France, for a sufficient force of knights and menat-arms to wage a relentless war upon his own barons that he might effectively put a stop to all future interference by them with the royal prerogative of the Plantagenets to misrule England. |
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