wage

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Payment for labor or services to a worker, especially remuneration on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis or by the piece.
2. n. Economics The portion of the national product that represents the aggregate paid for all contributing labor and services as distinguished from the portion retained by management or reinvested in capital goods.
3. n. A fitting return; a recompense. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb: the wages of sin.
4. v. To engage in (a war or campaign, for example).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A gage; a pledge; a stake.
2. n. That which is paid for a service rendered; what is paid for labor; hire: now usually in the plural. Sometimes the plural form is used as a singular. In common use the word wages is applied specifically to the payment made for manual labor or other labor of a menial or mechanical kind: distinguished (but somewhat vaguely) from salary (which see), and from fee, which denotes compensation paid to professional men, as lawyers and physicians.
3. n. Synonyms Pay, Hire, etc. See salary.
4. To pledge; bet; stake on a chance; lay; wager.
5. To venture on; hazard; attempt; encounter.
6. To engage in, as in a contest; carry on, as a war; undertake.
7. To let out for pay.
8. To hire for pay; engage or employ for wages.
9. To pay wages to.
10. In ceramics, to knead, work, or temper, as potters' clay.
11. To contend; battle.
12. To serve as a pledge or stake for something else; be opposed as equal stakes in a wager; be equal in value: followed by with.

Wiktionary

1. n. An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
2. v. transitive, obsolete To wager, bet.
3. v. transitive, obsolete To employ for wages; to hire.
4. v. transitive To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager.
2. v. To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
3. v. To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war.
4. v. obsolete To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
5. v. obsolete To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
6. v. (O. Eng. Law) To give security for the performance of.
7. v. obsolete To bind one's self; to engage.
8. n. obsolete That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.
9. n. That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
2. n. something that remunerates