wage

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To wager, bet.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To employ for wages; to hire.
4. (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
5. (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
6. (UK, obsolete) To give security for the performance of.

Sinonieme

salary

pay

💸

wages

earnings

remuneration

fee

stipend

payment

💸

income

reward

emolument

hire

compensation

conduct

engage

bring

drive

do

cost

attempt

gain

undertake

wage rate

guide

rent

channel

price

lead

labour cost

make

emerge

embark on

carry out

embark

allowance

due

be next to

gratuity

award

alight

achieve

go

get down

get

gainings

go out

commit

fly

✈️

fine

commence

Vertalings

salario

💸

salario

salaire

Lohn

paga

💸

sueldo

loon

salaris

Gehalt

salari

ordenado

salário

sou

μισθός

gage

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/weɪd͡ʒ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Old English: wedd

Verwante met Old Norse: veðja

Verwante met Goties: 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹

Verwante met Nederlands: wedde

In summary

From Middle English wage, from Anglo-Norman wage, from Old Northern French wage, a northern variant of Old French gauge, guage (whence modern French gage), Medieval Latin wadium, from Frankish *waddī (cognate with Old English wedd), from Proto-Germanic *wadją (“pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to pledge, redeem a pledge”). Akin to Old Norse veðja (“to pledge”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹 (wadi), Dutch wedde. Compare also the doublet gage. More at wed.