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wage

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wage1 /weɪdʒ/ ●●● S2 W2 noun
1  [singular] (also wages [plural])BEW money you earn that is paid according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that you work 〔按小時、日或周計算的〕工資，薪金 → salary
He earns a good wage.
他工資挺高。
wage increase (also wage rise British English)
The wage increases will come into effect in June.
此次加薪將於6月份施行。
daily/weekly etc wage
a weekly wage of $250
250美元的周薪
wage levels/rates (=fixed amounts of money paid for particular jobs) 〔特定工作固定的〕工資水平/等級
2  a living wage BEWmoney you earn for work that is enough to pay for the basic things that you need to live 維持基本生活的工資
The church no longer paid a living wage.
教會不再支付可以維持生計的薪俸了。
Examples from the Corpus
a living wage• They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.• Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage?• Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
3. wage freeze BEWPGan action taken by a company, government etc to stop wages increasing 工資凍結
Examples from the Corpus
wage freeze• The 340 hourly-paid workers would not accept a wages freeze and cuts in their benefits and were sacked.• Three-quarters of the workforce was sacked after failing to accept a management plan which involved a wages freeze and benefit cuts.• Those who had feared price and wage freezes were relieved.• They agreed to return to work but under protest at the wage freeze and benefits cuts.• The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 percent to a target of 13 percent.
4. wage claim BEWBELthe amount of money asked for by workers as an increase in wages 增加工資的要求，加薪要求
Examples from the Corpus
wage claim• In the summer of 1953 the union carried out strikes and go-slows in support of a wage claim, but were locked out.• There was also concern that a renewed upturn in inflation could inflame wage claims in the forthcoming pay round.• The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.• Meanwhile, trade unions became more active in their wage claims, and a vicious price-wage-price spiral developed.• Mr Scargill urged the miners to prepare for battle: they must stand firm over their wage claim.• Many, therefore, blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies.
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
high
The factory workers are demanding higher wages.
low
There are high numbers of people on low wages.
good
They were earning good wages.
Wages are good compared to other occupations.
a decent wage (=one that is reasonable and allows you to buy what you need)
Jobs in the factories used to pay a decent wage, but those jobs are gone now.
the hourly/daily/monthly etc wage
The average daily wage was £100.
the minimum wage (=the lowest amount of money that an employer can legally pay to a worker)
a rise in the minimum wage
the basic wage (=what someone earns before overtime pay, tips, or bonuses are added)
The basic wage paid at the factory is the lowest in the auto industry, but with bonuses, the total compensation is the highest.
real wages (=a calculation of how much your wages will buy, usually compared to how much you were able to buy in the past)
Average real wages rose by 26% between 1919 and 1929.
wage + NOUN
a wage increase/rise
The rail workers demanded a 20% wage increase.
a wage reduction/cut
Those who kept their jobs had to take large wage cuts.
wage levels/rates
Wage levels remained low during the 1930s.
verbs
earn a wage
Both parents were earning a wage, yet money was still tight.
pay a wage
Some firms still paid lower wages to female workers.
raise wages
He was able to raise the wages of some key staff.
Examples from the Corpus
wage• As capital moves to low-wage areas, the employment rate tends to rise, and wages are pushed up.• Steve makes a decent wage as a civil engineer.• Without qualifications it's nearly impossible to get a job with decent wages.• In general, computer jobs pay good wages.• Being of very modest means, but having some contacts upon the turf, he attempted to increase his wages by gambling.• Elvina earns an hourly wage of $11.• Most of the new jobs in the area only pay the minimum wage.• The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.• About 35p of this went on wages.• The behaviour of both productivity and product wages do not conform precisely to the simplest description of overaccumulation.• There was, in the mid century, a gap between rising wages and even more rapidly rising prices that favoured investment.• Farmers are businessmen and since wages constitute a cost of production they will normally pay no more than prevailing conditions dictate.
wage levels/rates• Whether leisure time increases or decreases as wage rates rise is an empirical question.• Controlling for the other variables, Thaler and Rosen found a clear systematic tendency for wage rates to rise with increasing risk.• The effect of wage rates is a result of two conflicting elements.• Resultant wage levels eroded corporate liquidity and profitability, although the extent of the deterioration varied between nations.• It is for these reasons that wage rates differ from one job to the next.• In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis.• It is the demand and supply conditions in these segmented markets which help to determine the wage rates of different workers.• He set the wage levels, the production targets, the safety standards, and he really planned the whole industry.
wage2 verb [transitiveT]
FIGHT FOR OR AGAINST somethingto be involved in a war against someone, or a fight against something 發動，進行〔戰爭或鬥爭〕
wage war (on somebody/something)
The police are waging war on drug pushers in the city.
警方正在市内開展一場打擊毒販的鬥爭。
wage a campaign/struggle/battle etc
The council has waged a vigorous campaign against the proposal.
市政會發起了一場激烈的運動反對這項提議。
Examples from the Corpus
wage• But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.• Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality, slapping it down, groaning.• And war must be waged on organized crime.• So he theorized that, for democracies, waging war had a hyperbolic boomerang-like effect on society.
wage a campaign/struggle/battle etc• They have waged a campaign against Town.• They waged a battle, and we waged a skirmish, and they won.• Pasok denied yesterday it was waging a battle on two fronts.
From Longman Business Dictionary
wagewage /weɪdʒ/ noun [countableC]
(also wages)HUMAN RESOURCES money that someone earns according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that they work, especially money that is paid each week
The average hourly wage in the industry is $8.
Workers were demanding a 10% wage increase.
The new law would mean a 5% pay cut for most wage earners.
For the average worker, wages rose 4.6%.
She worked long hours for low wages.
→ basic wage → living wage → minimum wage → money wages → real wages
Origin wage1
(1300-1400) Old North French “guarantee, wage”
 wage2
(1300-1400) Old North French wagier “to give as a guarantee”, from wage; → WAGE1

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