wage
Significado (English)
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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.
Conceptos
Synonyms
wage rate
labour cost
actor’s remuneration
actress’s remuneration
performing fee
to carry on
be next to
embark on
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/weɪd͡ʒ/
Etimología (English)
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.
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