wage

Noun

Singular wage

Plural wages

1. (countable); (often plural) Wages is the money a person is paid for doing their job. <> albashi, kuɗin sati, kuɗin ƙwadago, ladan aiki.

   Na san ya musguna wa jama'a a kan kudin sati. [1]

   We fixed his wage at ₦300 per month <> Mun yi jingar naira ɗari uku da shi kowane wata.

   A wage freeze <> Takunkumin ƙarin albashi.

   Only 6 percent of the wage earners in this country earn more than $100,000.

   They are working for minimum wage or $5 an hour.

   The workers were demanding higher wages.

Synonyms

• pay
• income
• salary
• compensation

Verb

Plain form (yanzu) wage

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) wages

Past tense (ya wuce) waged

Past participle (ya wuce) waged

Present participle (ana cikin yi) waging

1. (transitive) If you wage a battle, war, or campaign for or against something, you fight or work hard for or against it. <> yi yaƙi, kai wa yaƙi.

   After his death in 1990, a five-year battle was waged in court for control of the $72 million estate.

   the Iranians hate Iraq for the war that they waged against them for eight years.

   This is the beginning of a long legal battle, similar to the campaign waged against the tobacco industry.

Synonyms

• fight
• prosecute

Google translation of wage

Sakamako, la'ada.