Wage
A wage is remuneration paid by an employer to an employee. It may be a calculated as a fixed task based amount, or at an hourly rate, or based on an easily measured quantity of work done. It is contrasted with salaried work, which is based on a fixed time period.
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Famous quotes containing the word wage:
“I wage not any feud with Death
For changes wrought on form and face;
No lower life that earths embrace
May breed with him can fright my faith.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”
—Georges Clemenceau (18411929)