wage1 nounwage2 verb
wagewage1 /weɪdʒ/ ●●● S2 W2 noun 
WORD ORIGINwage1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old North French ‘guarantee, wage’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Elvina earns an hourly wage of $11.
- In general, computer jobs pay good wages.
- Most of the new jobs in the area only pay the minimum wage.
- Steve makes a decent wage as a civil engineer.
- Without qualifications it's nearly impossible to get a job with decent wages.
- About 35p of this went on wages.
- As capital moves to low-wage areas, the employment rate tends to rise, and wages are pushed up.
- Being of very modest means, but having some contacts upon the turf, he attempted to increase his wages by gambling.
- Farmers are businessmen and since wages constitute a cost of production they will normally pay no more than prevailing conditions dictate.
- The behaviour of both productivity and product wages do not conform precisely to the simplest description of overaccumulation.
- The Trotskyist movement has long advocated a sliding scale of wages to meet the rising cost of living.
- There was, in the mid century, a gap between rising wages and even more rapidly rising prices that favoured investment.
Longman Language Activatorthe money that you earn
the money that you earn by working: · "What's the pay?" "About $10 an hour."· The worst thing about being a nurse is the low pay.sick pay (=pay that you get when you are ill and cannot work): · Joe's been receiving sick pay since the accident.
the money that someone is paid every month by their employer, especially someone who is in a profession, such as a teacher or a manager: a salary of £100,000/$10,000 etc: · The university provides a salary of $3,000 a month plus benefits.· Johansen reportedly earns an annual salary of $4 million. be on a salary (=be earning a salary): · I joined the company in 1985, on a salary of $22,000 a year.a good/high salary: · Our daughter makes a good salary, but she really works for it.
also wages the money that someone is paid every week by their employer, especially someone who works in a factory, shop etc: · Elvina earns an hourly wage of $11.· Without qualifications it's nearly impossible to get a job with decent wages.minimum wage (=the lowest amount of money that can legally be paid per hour to a worker): · Most of the new jobs in the area only pay the minimum wage.
all the money that you receive regularly, for work or for any other reason: · Braund's annual income is just over $40,000.· The amount of tax you have to pay depends on your income.be on a low income (=receive very little money): · Families on low incomes are eligible for state benefits.income from: · Richard has a comfortable income from his salary and his investments.
the total amount of money you earn from any work you do: · Most single mothers spend a large part of their earnings on childcare.· The average worker's earnings have not kept up with inflation.
money paid to a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer for a piece of work: · Dr Allison charges a fee of $90 for a consultation.· Last year IBM paid $12 million in legal fees to a single law firm.· The fee for the standard structural survey is £175.
WORD SETSbonus, noundanger money, noundirect deposit, noundouble time, nounearnings, nounincrement, nounindex-linked, adjectiveliving wage, nounlow-paid, adjectivemeans, nounovertime, nounpay, verbpay, nounpaycheque, nounpayday, nounPAYE, nounpay packet, nounpay rise, nounpayroll, nounpayslip, nounper diem, nounperformance-related pay, nounraise, nounredundancy pay, nounrise, nounsalaried, adjectivesalary, nounsub, nounsub, verbsuperannuation, nounsuperannuation scheme, nountake-home pay, nounwage, nounwage-earner, nounwage-packet, nounweighting, nounwell-paid, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining. Which graduates command the highest salaries? Rent controls ensured that no one paid too much for housing. He is the only wage earner in the family. families existing on very low incomes He supplements his meager income by working on Saturdays. If prices rise and the nominal wage remains constant, the real wage falls.
· The factory workers are demanding higher wages.
· There are high numbers of people on low wages.
· They were earning good wages.· Wages are good compared to other occupations.
(=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 average daily wage was £100.
(=the lowest amount of money that an employer can legally pay to a worker)· a rise in the minimum 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.
(=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· The rail workers demanded a 20% wage increase.
· Those who kept their jobs had to take large wage cuts.
· Wage levels remained low during the 1930s.
verbs· Both parents were earning a wage, yet money was still tight.
· Some firms still paid lower wages to female workers.
· He was able to raise the wages of some key staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining. (=carry out a campaign)· He ran an aggressive campaign.
Which graduates command the highest salaries? Rent controls ensured that no one paid too much for housing.· Millions of workers face pay cuts.
· You are more likely to earn a decent wage if you have a degree.
He is the only wage earner in the family.· Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
(=increasing prices/wages)· Price inflation was running at about twelve percent last summer.
· Wage levels had failed to keep up with inflation.
families existing on very low incomes He supplements his meager income by working on Saturdays. If prices rise and the nominal wage remains constant, the real wage falls.· What is the hourly wage rate?
(=to start and continue a war)· Their aim was to destroy the country’s capacity to wage war.
· Rebels waged guerrilla warfare against the occupying army.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· By this time professional cricketers' earnings had fallen behind average manual wages.· Indeed average wages for non-supervisory workers are lower than they were under Ronald Reagan.· The average factory wage is 40-70 baht a day.· The workers' average wages would be $ 44,500 annually -- 54 percent higher than the county average of $ 28,900.· In 1979 the link between state pensions and the average increase in wages was broken by the Government.· The average wage of women workers is two-thirds that of men.· It is doubly unfair because it hits thousands of workers who are earning less than the average industrial wage.· This research used a national average wage to value voluntary labour.
· Thus a higher wage rate increases the supply of hours of work, but reduces the demand for hours of work.· The overall effect of a higher minimum wage on employment and work hours therefore involves two offsetting forces.· But it can also be found in the writings of Defoe, who favoured high wages as a stimulant for home demand.· This group favors high minimum wages to lessen the competition from low-wage workers.· What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry, especially through higher wages.· The claim that higher minimum wages are inflationary and will create a loss of jobs is not substantiated either.· Nearly 140,000 workers in 53 jute mills across West Bengal went on strike on Jan. 28 demanding higher wages.· It was not because of labor, or high wages, or the Third World.
· Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?· They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.
· It rejected, in somewhat scathing terms, the owners' proposals for a combination of longer hours and lower wages.· High costs, low wages and merciless poverty are the price that Third World people pay. 4.· He says in some cases workers will have to accept lower wages to avoid redundancies.· Workers who are laid off should quickly find reemployment by offering to work for lower wages.· Unexpected overtime, low wages and complicated antisocial hours are features for many care assistants.· Threatening to go abroad to lower wage costs certainly plays a role in lowering wages at home.
· In a surprise policy about turn the Government is to raise the minimum adult wage by 10p an hour to £ 3.70.· Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the report proved that raising the minimum wage does not cost jobs.· He has always received minimum wages and saving has been difficult.· The White House sidestepped questions about linking the gas tax repeal with the minimum wage.· We might deplore that, but it shows that the national minimum wage has harmed the most vulnerable people in that society.· The typical minimum wage worker is a teenager from a middle-income family earning extra money for personal expenses.· And we reject Labour's job-destroying notion of a national minimum wage.· While economic theories disagree over the impacts of raising the minimum wage, so do some Tucson business people.
· Stars received 20 times the average monthly wage for one concert.· It nearly doubled his monthly wage, from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.· A further edict of Aug. 18 raised the monthly minimum wage from 4,000,000 intis to 16,000,000 intis.
· I shall not turn to the vexed question of the national minimum wage.· As the national minimum wage was edged up, so the position altered.· And we reject Labour's job-destroying notion of a national minimum wage.· We might deplore that, but it shows that the national minimum wage has harmed the most vulnerable people in that society.· The Government is planning to raise the national minimum wage from £3.70 to £4 an hour.· They could spell the end of national wage agreements and the sinking of clinical grading before it has properly begun to swim.
· These values are not primarily the pursuit of small amounts of money paid in a weekly wage.· Officials who packed private restaurants, where the bill for dinner exceeded their weekly wage, were plainly on the take.· If the weekly wage were £15, however, the firm would employ four workers.· San Pablo was a small maquila with a history of low-paid outwork at weekly wages averaging 400 pesos.· In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed.· If you are paid a weekly wage, then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on.· But between 1951 and 1962 juvenile weekly wages rose by 83 percent.· His weekly wages at this time were £11.54!
NOUN· The wage bill for a certain week was £3537.50.· In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.· The firm says it simply can not find the cash to meet its wage bill.· The club's wages bill was 4.7m.· Pay increases alone could not achieve this without inflating the country's wage bill to an unacceptable level.· Fears Meanwhile the bosses' wage bill is soaring.· Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to drastically trim the Roker wage bill before launching into the transfer market.· Critics suggest the wage bill element is excessive; the church authorities argue that they work with people through people.
· In the summer of 1953 the union carried out strikes and go-slows in support of a wage claim, but were locked out.· Mr Scargill urged the miners to prepare for battle: they must stand firm over their wage claim.· 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.
· In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster.· Threatening to go abroad to lower wage costs certainly plays a role in lowering wages at home.· But electrical contracting business fell 5%, despite lower wage costs.· And that is just wage costs.· The increase in manufacturing unit wage costs is at its lowest level since 1989 and is increasingly in line with Britain's main competitors.· The introduction of labour-saving agricultural machinery to reduce wage costs began in earnest from the mid-nineteenth century.· Also, job vacancies are rising, unit wage costs are falling and productivity is continuing to improve.
· First, proposed increases in energy and payroll taxes could have a knock-on effect on wage demands and prices.· Workers responded with higher wage demands.· The threat of unemployment also moderated the wage demands of those who still held jobs.· Section 4 discusses union wage setting, and develops a wage demand curve for each level of membership.· The simultaneous interaction of the membership demand curve and the wage demand curve determines equilibrium wages, membership, and employment.· This would decide whether the hard-won economic recovery of the post-IMF phase would be destroyed by rampaging wage demands and raging inflation.
· Employees needed to know the wage differential and how that impacted unit labor costs.· Wages as such and therefore wage differentials do not exist in many kibbutzim.· For such workers, the wage differential precisely measures their willingness to pay for safety.· The result is a complex structure of wage rates, characterised by a system of wage differentials.· Estimates based on wage differentials are also reported in a study by Robert 5.· Campbell earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation dealt with wage differentials between men and women.· The data on occupational hazards and wage differentials, used by Thaler and Rosen, suffer from several problems: 1.
· Many wage earners were indeed better off than ever before, and after 1922 the economy was free from inflation.· In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.· In Leicestershire only 22 percent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners, compared with 37 percent in Rutland next door.· A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.· As wage earners themselves, they saw the morality of equal pay.· Even in households where wage earners have some graduate education, incomes have declined 1 percent since 1989.· He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they hadn't made any payment for 17 months.· Minimum wage earners, Kerry said, make about $ 8, 500 in a year.
· 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.
· A formula could be seen as a way to get a fair wage increase and made it easier to deal with differentials.· The figures will show the effect of significant wage increases at Tynecastle in the past year.· Democrats hope to use the minimum wage increase to contrast their positions with those of Republicans.· A wage increase was granted in June, but below that demanded by the workers.· They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.· The deal allowed for a wage increase for employees of 7 percent, with a further increase to be negotiated.· While this was a victory and there was even a small wage increase, the Local had barely survived.
· But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.· He set the wage levels, the production targets, the safety standards, and he really planned the whole industry.· Resultant wage levels eroded corporate liquidity and profitability, although the extent of the deterioration varied between nations.· Expect to see new calls on the administration -- of either party -- to somehow create jobs faster and raise wage levels.· These might include, for example, a commitment to certain levels of investment, wage levels or even working conditions.· A reasonable measure, say Hong Kong critics, among the currencies of countries of similar structure and similar wage levels.· Trade unions do not have the right to strike nor negotiate wage levels, which are determined by the administrative centre.· The evidence for this regional divergence does not rest only on wage levels in manufacturing and mining.
· It is the money wage alone which is determined by the bargains struck between workers and employers.· Negotiations over pay are about changes in money wages.· This would lead to a fall in the money wage and so restore full employment.· This observation did appear to conform with the actual behaviour of money wages in the interwar period, particularly in Britain.· In the above account the distinction between changes in money wages and changes in real wages has been deliberately blurred.· Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise.· Consider the original money wage version of the Phillips curve depicted in Figure 6.5.· In these circumstances elementary competitive theory suggests that money wages will fall.
· Mr Yarrow paused a moment before placing a wage packet into it.· When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere.· The more assertive and imaginative found honest ways to supplement their regular wage packet.· In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once.
· The real wage rate is not a variable which can be directly negotiated in the bargaining process.· Controlling for the other variables, Thaler and Rosen found a clear systematic tendency for wage rates to rise with increasing risk.· If unemployment is classical, steps must be taken to reduce the real wage rate.· It is the demand and supply conditions in these segmented markets which help to determine the wage rates of different workers.· The effect of wage rates is a result of two conflicting elements.· It was Keynes's view that, in practice, the money wage rate was downwardly rigid.· The result is a complex structure of wage rates, characterised by a system of wage differentials.· I remember when sick pay and conditions were added and when, under the wages councils, wage rates were raised.
· So faster wage rises were needed if the system was to function smoothly.· Economic unrest Workers at coal and copper mines went on strike during late July, demanding wage rises and improved conditions.· A 50 percent wage rise was also decreed for most civil servants.· Keynesianism seemed to have banished mass unemployment for ever and wage rises seemed as natural and regular as the tides.· The return to work settlement included a bonus of 15 percent on top of a wage rise of 59 percent.· The total wage rise of 6.25% built into the 1990-91 accord looks too high.· Also obtain details of any wage rises awarded during the third party's absence from work.
VERB· Albert earned a steady wage, was a good gardener and could afford to keep a wife in reasonable comfort.· Of course, people earning low wages will have a difficult time paying for childcare.· Consequently, rather than earning a wage, they are likely to find themselves claiming a range of benefits, grants and allowances.· It was what happened when young people earned decent wages, and had the means to buy clothes and go to discos.· Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.· She was overjoyed to find she earned a much higher wage than for her factory work.· But they did not earn a separate wage, they lived in effect in a mainly cashless society.· I would do anything to earn a wage, however small - be a servant, even.
· If the price level should rise, the real wage would fall, creating an excess demand for labour.· Real wages fall because real skills are falling. 3.· Real wages have fallen by 90 percent since 1981.· In such a situation wages must fall, since every worker is working with less capital.· For many people real wages fell and working conditions worsened.· Relatively, college wages rose even though real wages were falling for both college and high school graduates.· If so, the union collapses and wages fall to the competitive level.· Then, around 1900, when profits rose but wages fell, the period was called the Belle Epoque.
· It is not just a question of paying competitive wages.· Students would be paid the starting wage for whatever job position they held.· He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick.· They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.· He's being paid far below union wages in a factory with disgusting air quality.· Federal law currently requires employees who work more than 40 hours in one week to be paid overtime wages.· But workers were paid low wages, lived mostly in overcrowded bunkhouses and were subjected to daily body searches and internal scans.· No one determines if the company is actually paying the prevailing wage.
· Workers with reduced social protection were unable to raise their wages to compensate.· He has a five-plank campaign that includes raising the minimum wage and opposition to school vouchers.· A further edict of Aug. 18 raised the monthly minimum wage from 4,000,000 intis to 16,000,000 intis.· Labor Secretary Robert Reich said the report proved that raising the minimum wage does not cost jobs.· Instead of economic insecurity, they argued over raising the federal minimum wage.· Ultimately, economic growth and improved education are the best ways to raise wages.· To raise his wage without raising his marginal productivity would be to put his pay above his contribution.· Politically, raising the minimum wage is good for the Democrats, but is it good for low-income workers?
· He has always received minimum wages and saving has been difficult.· Contingent workers receive lower wages, less fringes, fewer paid holidays, and must accept greater economic risks and uncertainty.· The housewife receives no wage for her work.· Women workers do not receive a fair wage because their earnings are considered a complementary salary.· Very few workers - less than 5 percent - receive the statutory minimum wage, however.· Ultimately Steele divided land amongst his slaves for which they paid rent; they received wages for other work.· On the other hand, any workers lucky enough to be employed receive a higher wage.· The worker, in contrast, has only his labour to sell and receives only wages in return.
· If unemployment is classical, steps must be taken to reduce the real wage rate.· Many of the approximately 150 people we talked to were out of work or had suffered reduced wages.· Only when they eventually become aware that no such jobs are available do they reduce their asking wage.· In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.· Workers' real wages would have been reduced, provided money wages did not rise.· Policies aimed at reducing the wages of the lower paid have included: 1.· In fact, as Mathias has pointed out, employers did not reduce wages when they wanted an increase in labour.· Workers who face a reduction in demand for their services become unemployed rather than reduce their asking wages.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dock somebody’s wages/pay/salary► a livable wage/salary
1[singular] (also wages [plural]) money you earn that is paid according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that you work: - 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?
- They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage.
- The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 percent to a target of 13 percent.
- The 340 hourly-paid workers would not accept a wages freeze and cuts in their benefits and were sacked.
- They agreed to return to work but under protest at the wage freeze and benefits cuts.
- Those who had feared price and wage freezes were relieved.
- Three-quarters of the workforce was sacked after failing to accept a management plan which involved a wages freeze and benefit cuts.
- In the summer of 1953 the union carried out strikes and go-slows in support of a wage claim, but were locked out.
- Many, therefore, blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies.
- 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.
- The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.
- There was also concern that a renewed upturn in inflation could inflame wage claims in the forthcoming pay round.
- Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
- They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.
He earns a good wage.wage increase (also wage rise )British English The wage increases will come into effect in June.daily/weekly etc wage a weekly wage of $250wage levels/rates (=fixed amounts of money paid for particular jobs)2a living wage money you earn for work that is enough to pay for the basic things that you need to live: The church no longer paid a living wage.3wage freeze an action taken by a company, government etc to stop wages increasing4wage claim the amount of money asked for by workers as an increase in wagesCOLLOCATIONSadjectiveshigh· 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 wagethe 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 + NOUNa 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.verbsearn 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.wage1 nounwage2 verb
wagewage2 verb [transitive] WORD ORIGINwage2
Origin:
1300-1400 Old North French wagier ‘to give as a guarantee’, from wage; ➔ WAGE1VERB TABLE
wage
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | wage |
| he, she, it | wages | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | waged |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have waged |
| he, she, it | has waged | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had waged |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will wage |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have waged |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am waging |
| he, she, it | is waging | |
| you, we, they | are waging | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was waging |
| you, we, they | were waging | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been waging |
| he, she, it | has been waging | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been waging |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be waging |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been waging |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- And war must be waged on organized crime.
- Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality, slapping it down, groaning.
- But the anguished upstate New York social worker now finds himself waging a spirited campaign to keep his sibling from death row.
- So he theorized that, for democracies, waging war had a hyperbolic boomerang-like effect on society.
Longman Language Activatorto fight for something you think is right or against something you think is wrong
to try hard for a long time to stop something bad from happening or to improve a situation: · We are determined to fight drug abuse in schools.fight for: · Freedom of speech is something well worth fighting for.fight to do something: · Mandela fought to abolish white-only rule in South Africa.fight against: · Amnesty is an organization that fights against torture and injustice.
to work continuously and patiently to make changes that will improve society or the world: work for: · The group has become a small but significant force working for change.work to do something: · an organization that is working to preserve California's redwood treeswork tirelessly (=work very hard): · She will be remembered as someone who worked tirelessly for educational reform.
to work for a long time, for example making speeches, writing to newspapers and political representatives etc, in order to persuade people that something needs to be done: · After months of campaigning, local parents have persuaded the council to provide a school bus service.campaign for: · Women campaigned for equal pay and equal rights throughout the 1960s.campaign to do something: · He was one of the people who campaigned to change the law on homosexuality.
to publicly fight for and defend an aim or principle such as the rights of a group of people: · Martin Luther King championed the rights of all black Americans.· Throughout her political career she was a champion of prison reform.
to take action effectively in order to oppose something bad such as injustice, crime, or illness: · The police are looking for more effective ways to combat drugs gangs in the city.· Measures to combat pollution within the city have been introduced.· The government sees price controls as a way to combat inflation.
if a government or organization wages war on something such as an illness, bad conditions, or crime, they fight against it for a long time in a very determined way: · The World Health Organization is constantly waging war on malaria.· We need a comprehensive strategy to wage war on poverty in our inner cities.
to fight in a war or be in a war to take part in a war or battle: · His grandfather fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.· The Boers were fighting the British at this time.fight for: · Most of these young soldiers don't even know what they're fighting for.fight in: · My grandfather fought in World War II.fight a war/battle: · They were fighting a war of independence against a powerful enemy.
if two armies or groups clash , they suddenly start fighting each other, especially for a short time - used especially in news reports:: · Iranian and Iraqi troops clashed on the border.clash with: · US planes clashed with enemy fighter aircraft again today.
if two countries are at war with each other, they are fighting a war against each other: · Europe had been at war for nearly two years.· He could not remember a time when his country had not been at war.be at war with: · In 1792 England was at war with America.
to start and continue a war, especially for a long period: · In his speech he promised full support to wars of independence waged by colonial peoples.wage war on/against: · Many Americans now question whether the US should have waged war on Vietnam.
to fight a war, especially by suddenly attacking a country that does not threaten your country: · He believes that men make war because they are by nature aggressive.make war on: · Throughout the nineteenth century the colonial powers made war on poorer countries in order to gain territory.
: warring factions/nations/tribes/groups etc nations etc that are fighting against each other: · Fighting between the various warring factions was destroying the country.· All attempts to reconcile the two warring groups have failed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The police are waging war on drug pushers in the city. The council has waged a vigorous campaign against the proposal.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining. Which graduates command the highest salaries? Rent controls ensured that no one paid too much for housing. He is the only wage earner in the family. families existing on very low incomes He supplements his meager income by working on Saturdays. If prices rise and the nominal wage remains constant, the real wage falls.
The police are waging war on drug pushers in the city. The council has waged a vigorous campaign against the proposal. The government would not intervene in private-sector wage bargaining. (=carry out a campaign)· He ran an aggressive campaign.
Which graduates command the highest salaries? Rent controls ensured that no one paid too much for housing.· Millions of workers face pay cuts.
· You are more likely to earn a decent wage if you have a degree.
He is the only wage earner in the family.· Canadian workers received a 5.4% wage increase.
(=increasing prices/wages)· Price inflation was running at about twelve percent last summer.
· Wage levels had failed to keep up with inflation.
families existing on very low incomes He supplements his meager income by working on Saturdays. If prices rise and the nominal wage remains constant, the real wage falls.· What is the hourly wage rate?
(=to start and continue a war)· Their aim was to destroy the country’s capacity to wage war.
· Rebels waged guerrilla warfare against the occupying army.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Now, they say, future battles will be waged on features and added value.· The battle they waged was biblical.· They waged a battle, and we waged a skirmish, and they won.
· He was briefly arrested the next year after a campaign waged against him by the collaborationist journal Je Suis Partout.· Feinstein handily defeated Davis in that race, despite a nasty campaign waged by Davis.· I refer to the lively campaign being waged in the United States which is affecting many of their best-known golf clubs.· Alderson believes there has been a whispering campaign waged against new owners Steve Schott and Ken Hofmann.· Despite an intense campaign waged by real-estate brokers against subsidizing housing for the poor, the plan prevailed.
· He has praised gang-fighting efforts and criticized the Clinton administration for waging an inadequate fight against drugs.· He waged a valiant fight against the permanent replacement of strikers.· Lincoln had been forced to wage his fight to end slavery with devastating force.
· It is necessary to wage a firm ideological struggle against this revisionist current. 6.
· It is election year, and a phoney war is being waged between the two main parties.· Hundreds of smaller chains and stores went out of business, many hurt by price wars waged by appliance chains.· There is now a horrific and bloody war being waged within me.· But they also threaten people in scores of countries where wars have been waged.· The Second World War, unlike the First, was a people's war waged against a hideous ideology.· So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals.· And war must be waged on organized crime.
· Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue.· President Clinton and the Republican Senate are waging election-year warfare over the confirmation of 135 presidential appointees.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► dock somebody’s wages/pay/salary► a livable wage/salary
to be involved in a war against someone, or a fight against somethingwage war (on somebody/something)- Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
- They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.
The police are waging war on drug pushers in the city.wage a campaign/struggle/battle etc The council has waged a vigorous campaign against the proposal.