waged

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wage

(wāj)

1. A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.

2. wages The price of labor in an economy.

3. often wages(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A fitting return; a recompense: 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.]

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waged

(weɪdʒd)

adj

1. (of workers) receiving money regularly for doing a job

2. (of work) that one is paid to do

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Translations

waged

[weɪdʒd] ADJ [person] → asalariado; [employment] → remunerado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

waged

[ˈweɪdʒd] adj [worker] → salarié(e); [work] → salarié(e)wage differential n → différence f de salaireswage earner n → salarié(e) m/f
the main wage earner → le principal salarié(la)(e)(e)wage freeze n → gel m des salaireswage packet n

(= money) → salaire m

(= envelope) → enveloppe f de paye

waged

adj → erwerbstätig

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References in classic literature ?

THE BIRDS waged war with the Beasts, and each were by turns the conquerors.

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Only the wives of "deserving" men received help, and single women and widows were expected to engage in waged labor.