These are the meanings of the letters WAGE when you unscramble them.
- Wage (v. i.)
To bind one's self; to engage.
- Wage (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.
- Wage (v. t.)
That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
- Wage (v. t.)
To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- Wage (v. t.)
To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
- Wage (v. t.)
To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- Wage (v. t.)
To give security for the performance 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.
- Wage (v. t.)
To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.