Definition of wage

• v. t. - To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.
• v. t. - To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
• v. t. - To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
• v. t. - To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
• v. t. - To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
• v. t. - To give security for the performance of.
• v. i. - To bind one's self; to engage.
• v. t. - That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
• v. t. - That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.