wage

wage
01. The minimum [wage] is now over $8.00 an hour.
02. [Wages] in the United States are much higher than in Mexico.
03. As an experienced electrician, she earns a very good [wage].
04. I hope to earn a good [wage] if I become fluent in English.
05. Newly unionized workers at MacBurger's have gone on strike in the hopes of raising their [wages] and improving their benefits.
06. She makes a very small [wage] working at a gift shop.
07. Ralph Nader has suggested that the increasing availability of jobs that pay a living [wage] contributes to lower rates in street crime.
08. There is a German proverb which states that laziness has poverty for [wages].
09. There is a Jamaican proverb which observes that a good conscience is better than a big [wage].
10. There is a Russian proverb which states, "Make peace with people; [wage] war with your sins."
11. The United States has been [waging] war on drugs for years, but the problem only seems to have gotten worse.
12. In 1914, Ford Motor Company paid workers who were age 22 or older $5 per day, which was double the average [wage] offered by other car factories.
13. The Dalai Lama has said that [waging] war for the cause of freedom can sometimes be justified.
14. America's first minimum [wage] was 25 cents an hour, and was established in 1938.
15. Many people working on farms in Haiti earn a [wage] of about 60 cents a day.
16. The people of the Czech Republic pay 7.5% of their [wage] to health insurance companies for medical care.
17. Numerous studies worldwide show that for every year of schooling, [wages] for workers increase by about ten percent.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Wage — Wage, n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See {Wage}, v. t. ] [1913 Webster] 1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] That warlike wage. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. That for which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • wage — [wāj] vt. waged, waging [ME wagen < NormFr wagier (OFr gagier) < wage (OFr gage), a stake, pledge < Frank * wadi, akin to Goth wadi, a pledge: for IE base see WED] 1. to engage in or carry on (a war, struggle, campaign, etc.) 2. [Dial.,… …   English World dictionary

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  • Wage [2] — Wage. C. Schenck in Darmstadt hat die Zahl der Schwingungen untersucht, die der Wagebalken ausführt, bevor er zur Ruhe kommt. Diese Zahl hängt von dem Trägheitsradius, dieser wieder von der Gestalt des Wagebalkens ab. Schenck findet, daß bei… …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

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