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WAGE

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wage¹ substantiv

1. (mai ales pl.) plată, leafă, salariu mai ales chenzină;

she got good wages câştiga bine.

2. (pl., folosit ca sg.) (fig.) plată, răsplată; pedeapsă.

3. (înv.) zălog, chezăşie.

wage² verb A. tranzitiv

a duce, a purta (război).

wage² verb B. intranzitiv

(rar) a. duce / a purta război, a se război.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

When half the folk in the country were dead it was then that the other half could pick and choose who they would work for, and for what wage.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What wages?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The king said to him: “You may return to your home, I need you no longer, and you will not receive any more money, for he only receives wages who renders me service for them.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

They led, however, in an indirect fashion to a singular and complex problem which gave my friend an opportunity of demonstrating the value of a fresh weapon among the many with which he waged his life-long battle against crime.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At half wages, in fact.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Take your wages.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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