Read full poem →Listening Envy drops her snakes;
Intestine war no more our passions wage,
And giddy factions hear away their rage.
Dictionary Entry
(often in plural) 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.
In a Sentence
“Before her promotion, her wages were 20% less.”
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
rates wagerate wage. wageearners wageincreases wagewar wagewage minimumwage real
Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.
Antonyms
No antonyms yet.
Poetry examples for “wage”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sees gods with demons in strange league engage,
And earth, and heaven, and hell her battles wage.
She eyed the bard, where supperless he sate,
Read full poem →For life is greater than the thousand wars
Men wage for it in their insatiate lust,
And will remain like the eternal stars,
Read full poem →Who prunes for love, he says, and not for
wage,
Than simple care has more disastrous names,
Read full poem →While might and right are not agreed,
And battle thus is yet to wage,
So long let laurels be the meed
Read full poem →The care and weakness that I know--refuse
To admit I am unworthy of the wage
Paid to a man who gives up eyes and breath
Read full poem →From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet.
You may serve us if you must, and you shall have your wage of ashes, --
Though arrears due thereafter may be hard for you to meet.
Read full poem →And pond'ring which of all his sons was fit
To reign, and wage immortal war with wit;
Cry'd, 'tis resolv'd; for nature pleads that he
Read full poem →Then worthy Glenriddel, so cautious and sage,
No longer the warfare ungodly would wage;
A high Ruling Elder to wallow in wine;
Read full poem →When we our stormy battle wage,
Thy Spirit be our zeal!