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How to pronounce “wage”
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Pronunciation guide for wage
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of wage with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women 16 minutes
It means that the economy is dividing into high-skill, high-wage jobs
- Definition summary
- (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
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How to pronounce wage
Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women 16 minutes
It means that the economy is dividing into high-skill, high-wage jobs
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “wage”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
- [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, law, UK) To give security for the performance of.[1]
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