Wage vs Levy - What's the difference?
wage | levy |
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
To wager, bet.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
:(Hakluyt)
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:too weak to wage an instant trial with the king
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to wake and wage a danger profitless
To employ for wages; to hire.
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*:Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
*(Raphael Holinshed) (1529-1580)
*:abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
(label) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit / To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
*:The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
(label) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Thoumust wage thy works for wealth.
To give security for the performance of.
:(Burrill)
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
* Shakespeare
To draft someone into military service
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
* Fuller
To wage war
To raise, as a siege.
(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
The act of levying.
* Thirlwall
The tax, property or people so levied.
* Macaulay
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
As nouns the difference between wage and levy
is that wage is an amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis while levy is the act of levying.As verbs the difference between wage and levy
is that wage is to wager, bet while levy is to impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.wage
English
(wikipedia wage)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from . Akin to (etyl) '''' "to pledge", (etyl) ''wadi''. Compare also the doublet ''gage . More at wed. Possible contributory etylomolgy from from the Old English wæge (meaning "weight," as wages at times have been goods or coin measured on a scale).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* earnings, pay, salaryDerived terms
* hourly wage * lost wages * wage moderation * wage scaleEtymology 2
From (etyl) intermediate *''wadiare'' from *''wadium .Verb
(wag)Usage notes
* "Wage" collocates strongly with "war", leading to expressions such as To wage peace'', or ''To wage football implying the inclusion of a large element of conflict in the action.Derived terms
* (agent noun)levy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".Verb
(en-verb)- to levy a tax
- If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
- Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- (Holland)
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- (Cowell)
Noun
(levies)- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The Irish levies .