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waged

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wage  (wj)
n.
1. Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
2. wages Economics The portion of the national product that represents the aggregate paid for all contributing labor and services as distinguished from the portion retained by management or reinvested in capital goods.
3. A fitting return; a recompense. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb: the wages of sin.
tr.v. waged, wag·ing, wag·es
To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

[Middle English, from Old North French, of Germanic origin.]
Translations
waged [weɪdʒd] ADJ [person] → asalariado; [employment] → remunerado
waged [ˈweɪdʒd] adj [worker] → salarié(e); [work] → salarié(e)
wage differential ndifférence f de salaires
wage earner nsalarié(e) m/f
the main wage earner → le* principal* salarié*(la)(e)(e)
wage freeze ngel m des salaires
wage packet n
(= money) → salaire m
(= envelope) → enveloppe f de paye
waged


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THE BIRDS waged war with the Beasts, and each were by turns the conquerors.
I will tell the deputation that I did not, and do not, desire war, that I have waged war only against the false policy of their court; that I love and respect Alexander and that in Moscow I will accept terms of peace worthy of myself and of my people.
For years the military forces of Belgian Congo had waged a fruitless war upon this man and his followers--a war in which quarter had never been asked nor expected by either side.
 
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