wage+war
51wage — ► NOUN (also wages) 1) a fixed regular payment for work, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis. 2) the result or effect of doing something wrong or unwise: the wages of sin. ► VERB ▪ carry on (a war or campaign). DERIVATIVES waged adjective …
52Wage (2), die — 2. Die Wage, plur. die n, ein altes Wort, in welchem der Begriff der Bewegung der herrschende ist, der doch sehr frühe auf besondere Arten und Fälle eingeschränket worden. Es bedeutet, 1. * im weitesten Verstande, Bewegung überhaupt, eine längst… …
53wage — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (also wages) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ competitive (esp. AmE), decent, fair, good, high ▪ inadequate, low, meagre/meager (esp …
54wage — {{11}}wage (n.) c.1300, a payment for services rendered, also in Middle English a pledge of security (mid 14c.), from O.N.Fr. wage (O.Fr. guage) pledge, from Frankish *wadja (Cf. O.E. wedd, Gothic wadi pledge ); see WED (Cf. wed). Modern French… …
55wage — n. & v. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a fixed regular payment, usu. daily or weekly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. to a manual or unskilled worker (cf. SALARY). 2 (in sing. or pl.) requital (the wages of sin is death). 3 (in pl.) Econ. the… …
56wage-price control — Setting of government guidelines to limit increases in wages and prices. It is one of the most extreme approaches to incomes policy. By controlling wages and prices, governments hope to control inflation and prevent extremes in the business cycle …
57wage — [[t]we͟ɪʤ[/t]] ♦♦♦ wages, waging, waged 1) N COUNT Someone s wages are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do. His wages have gone up... This may end efforts to set a minimum wage well above the poverty line …
58War — This article is about war in general. For other uses, see War (disambiguation) and The War (disambiguation). Warfare Military history Eras …
59Wage Stabilization Board — The Wage Stabilization Board was set up by President Harry Truman within the United States Department of Labor, in December 1945, to take over the work of the National War Labor Board. It was replaced by another board of the same name in… …
60war — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long, short ▪ impending, ongoing ▪ bloody ▪ all out, full scale, total …
