WAGED

Definition: WAGED

WAGED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Wage

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WAGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. (Underworld; writing credit: Danny McBride)

Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

War is waged by nations, but it is human beings who pay the price. (Helen of Troy; writing credit: Ronnie Kern)

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Domain	Title
Books	Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin; the war they waged and the peace they sought (reference) Closing Argument: Defending and Befriending John Gotti, and Other Legal Battles I Have Waged (reference) Hidden in the Home: The Role of Waged Homework in the Modern World-Economy (Suny Series in Women and Work) (reference) Report on the spirit and manner in which the war has been waged by the enemy, 1813 (reference) Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain (International Studies of Women and Place) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity, in despite of humanity.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	China	For the past 3 years, the Government has waged a severe political, propaganda, and police campaign against the FLG movement. (references)
	Uzbekistan	The core of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which has waged an armed insurrection since 1999, was formed in large part from these elements. (references)
	Burma	There is a concentration of Christians among some of the ethnic minorities (for example, the Karen and Kachin) against which the army has fought for decades, although groups that practice Buddhism (for example, the Shan) also have waged many of the ethnic insurgencies. (references)
Economic History	Uganda	The Tanzanian force, backed by Ugandan exiles, waged a war of liberation against Amin's troops and Libyan soldiers sent to help him. (references)
	Argentina	Following the defeat of the Spanish, centralist and federalist groups waged a lengthy conflict between themselves to determine the future of the nation. (references)
	Colombia	The threat of urban narcotics-related violence and terrorism is less than in the late 1980's/early 1990's, when the Medell�n drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar waged a war against its rivals and the Colombian Government. (references)
Indigenous People	Bangladesh	Bengali inhabitants in the CHT increased from 3 percent of the region's population in 1947 to approximately 50 percent of the area's population of 1 million persons in 1997. The Shanti-Bahini, a tribal group, had waged a low-level conflict in the CHT from the early 1970's until the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord with the Government in December 1997. During the periods of violence, all of those involved--indigenous tribes, settlers, and security forces--accused each other of human rights violations. (references)
Minorities	Japan	As a result of widespread media attention, appeals by the Justice Ministry, and an antidiscrimination campaign waged by nongovernmental organizations, several businesses in Hokkaido lifted their bans against foreigners. (references)
Political Economy	Nepal	The insurrection has been waged through torture, killings, bombings, extortion, and intimidation against civilians and public officials. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	They've always been left largely in tact, free to start or support another war, including the current terrorist war now being waged against Israel's citizens.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	So far the fight against inflation has been waged successfully.
George Bush	1989-1993	Tell your grandchildren the story of struggles waged at home and abroad, of sacrifices freely made for freedom's sake.
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"WAGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.98% of the time. "WAGED" is used about 188 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	57.98%	109	31,132
Adjective (general or positive)	21.81%	41	53,521
Lexical Verb (past tense)	19.68%	37	56,631
Noun (proper)	0.53%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	188	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "WAGED": low-waged.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "WAGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		从事 (Waging). (various references)

German		führte (guided, led, shepherded). (various references)

Hungarian		megvesztegetett (bribed), fizetett (hired, paid, salaried). (various references)

Korean		수행하�" (Executed, Prosecuted). (various references)

Pig Latin		agedway
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "WAGED": asswaged, swaged. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"WAGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: owage, Waage, waed, wafed, waga, Wagadon, wagen, Wagga, waggen, wagi, wagol, waied, wanged, wared, wased, wated, wawed, wayge, wege, Wge, wiget, Wojado, wrage, wuge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "WAGED" (pronounced wā"jd)
4	w ā" j d	assuaged.
3	-ā" j d	aged, caged, disengaged, engaged, enraged, gauged, paged, raged, restaged, staged, upstaged.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-w"
	-1 letter: aged, awed, egad, gaed, wade, wage.
	-2 letters: age, awe, dag, daw, dew, gad, gae, ged, wad, wae, wag, wed.
	-3 letters: ad, ae, ag, aw, de, ed, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-w"
	+1 letter: gawked, gawped, gnawed, swaged, wagged.
	+2 letters: dowager, gowaned, ragweed, swagged, twanged, wagered, waggled, wagoned, wangled, whanged, windage, wordage.
	+3 letters: agueweed, asswaged, awninged, dewaxing, dowagers, edgeways, guffawed, guideway, jigsawed, ragweeds, twangled, waggoned, waterdog, waughted, windages, wordages, wrangled.
	+4 letters: agueweeds, declawing, downgrade, downrange, downstage, earwigged, guideways, outgnawed, redrawing, rewarding, swaggered, wandering, waterdogs, waveguide, wigwagged.
	+5 letters: bedwarfing, beggarweed, deadweight, dewatering, dogwatches, downgraded, downgrades, downstages, drawbridge, greasewood, greensward, newfangled, orangewood, stewarding, wadsetting, wanderings, waveguides, wingspread.
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