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

Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis, The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person periodically for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, half-year, or quarter. See wages, A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy, verb_ To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation, transitive verb_ To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to, adjective_ obsolete Saline

By the hour as a unit, Frequent; continual, occurring every hour or payable by the hour, adverb_ every hour; by the hour, At intervals of an hour, Every hour; frequently; continually, noun_ Something produced each hour