(v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
(v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
(v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
(v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
(v. t.) To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
(v. t.) To give security for the performance of.
(v. i.) To bind one's self; to engage.
(v. t.) That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
(v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(2) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(3) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(4) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(5) Although the unemployment rate is 4.8%, it can come down further without wage inflation starting to rise.
(6) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
(7) But I hope 2015 will see the wage increases I expected to see this year.
(8) "While it seems possible that more will join the two MPC dissenters in coming months if wage growth picks up, it looks a long way to go before a majority on the MPC vote to raise interest rates," he said.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
(10) In more than 30 years of elections, ruling parties have lost when real wages are falling and an opposition party only won once, in 1997, when real wages were rising.
(11) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
(12) On his personal website, Miliband talks about the importance of the national minimum wage.
(13) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
(14) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
(15) Oregon’s governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years, and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
(16) According to calculations by the Resolution Foundation, a couple with two children in which the husband works full-time and the wife works part-time on or just above minimum wage stand to lose a total of £720 a year by 2020.
(17) Around 70,000 people currently receive the minimum wage in Scotland.
(18) So we were proud in 1997 to put forward the case for Britain’s first minimum wage.
(19) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
(20) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.
Workman
Definition:
(n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
(n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Workman (@workmanalice) What's your favourite type of lettuce?
(2) Workman's facing Avila, gets him in a 1-2 count and then strikes him out to end the inning.
(3) Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.52am GMT DCL (@DCL9) " @NotCoachTito :"Brandon Doin' Work, Man" @LengelDavid "Tag this thing & bag it now.Let's get this one to make sure there's a game 6 in #Boston October 27, 2013 Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Brandon Workman is coming to the plate batting for himself.
(4) Workman got exactly one out in the ninth inning before Farrell pulled him, so he effectively handed the Cardinals an out.
(5) The complexities and interferences in the doctor-patient relationship during the treatment of the compensably-injured workman create an unusually high incidence of delayed recovery, complications, and permanent disability.
(6) 3.45am BST Cardinals 4 - Red Sox 2, top of the 8th Brandon Workman, who does not come out to Rush's "Working Man" sadly, start the eighth.
(7) Of the 87 patients not receiving workman's compensation, 70 patients (80.5%) had marked improvement; four (4.6%) had slight improvement; and 13 (14.9%) had no improvement.
(8) And they took him by each arm and by each leg and laid him down on the table and the fifth one strapped him in.” Neither Workman nor Boone could remember the name of the man who resisted.
(9) "Employment growth is just not enough to cover the number of new entrants into the workforce," Workman said.
(10) Advisory board members Uwe Albrecht Managing partner, Siemens Venture Capital GmbH Peter Baines General partner, Advent Venture Partners Clennel Collingwood Investment manager, TTP Ventures Luciano Diana Head of Cleantech Energy Equity Research, Morgan Stanley Ben Goldsmith Partner, WHEB Ventures Alex Hook Investment manager, NESTA Bakhrom Ibragimov Principal, Virgin Green Fund Alok Jha Journalist, The Guardian Hamish Sandison Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP Patrick Sheehan Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund Felix von Schubert Partner, Zouk Ventures Adam Workman Investment partner, CT Investment Stephan Decher Founding partner, Clean Capital Jürgen Habichler Managing director, Mountain Cleantech Andrew Humphrey Clean energy analyst, Morgan Stanley Stuart McKnight Managing director, Ascendant Maurizio PetitBon General partner, Kreos Andreas von Richter GE Energy Financial Services Capital · Richard White is Senior Analyst at Library House
(11) During his employment with the corrections department, Workman said he never directly pushed the button during a lethal injection.
(12) Most notably, he left reliever Brandon Workman in the game to hit for himself, he struck out on three pitches in his first at-bat at any professional level, so he could come back to pitch the ninth of what was by then a 4-4 tie.
(13) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.
(14) That brings out Sox manager John Farrell to get his man, Workman is done for the night and starter Felix Doubront will make a relief appearance and face Prince Fielder.
(15) Workman thought Alverson had matured during more than a decade in prison: his time was productive, and he spoke to children to try to sway them from a life of crime, Workman said.
(16) Commonwealth Bank senior economist Michael Workman put the lower unemployment rate down to the fall in the participation rate.
(17) Speedy Ortiz play Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 19 May; The Workman's Club, Dublin, 20 May; Exchange, Bristol, 21 May; Electrowerkz, EC1, 22 May
(18) 3.55am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 7th Workman gets Infante to fly out for the first out of the 7th, Farrell gets Breslow and Tazawa working.
(19) The authors present the clinical course of a 48 year old workman who developed a progressively extending pain, after having wounded his left second finger with a metallic rod at work.
(20) Commonwealth Bank of Australia senior economist Michael Workman said soft investment outside the mining sector had probably been a key factor in the RBA’s decision.