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Definitioner
Substantiv
- An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
Verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To wager, bet.
- (transitive, obsolete) To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- (transitive, obsolete) To employ for wages; to hire.
- (transitive) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- (transitive) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- (obsolete, legal, UK) To give security for the performance of.
Exempel
- My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
- too weak to wage an instant trial with the king
- to wake and wage a danger profitless
- Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
- abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
- [He pondered] which of all his sons was fit / To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
- The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
- Thou[...]must wage thy works for wealth.
- wage war
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