A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work, That which is paid for a service rendered; what is paid for labor; hire_ now usually in the plural, An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis, verb_ carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns), transitive verb_ To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager, To expose one's self to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard, To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge; to carry on, as a war, intransitive verb_ obsolete To bind one's self; to engage