WAGING

Definition: WAGING

WAGING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Wage

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "WAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: WAGING

English words defined with "WAGING": combat ship ♦ war, war vessel, warfare, warship. (references)

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Modern Usage: WAGING

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Or is that war your waging (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)
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Commercial Usage: WAGING

Domain	Title
Books	Waging Peace (reference) Waging Peace in Our Schools (reference) Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy (reference) Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: WAGING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	We are waging a war of defense.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Historic Usage: WAGING

Author	Date	Quotation
US Declaration of Independence	1776	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. (reference)
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Non-Fiction Usage: WAGING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Haiti	In 1791, the slave population revolted--led by Haitian heroes Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe--and gained control of the northern part of the French colony, waging a war of attrition against the French. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: WAGING

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	From the advices which have been forwarded, the advance which he has made must have damped the ardor of the savages and weakened their obstinacy in waging war against the United States.
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Usage Frequency: WAGING

"WAGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.95% of the time. "WAGING" is used about 81 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 (-ing form)	83.95%	68	40,606
Noun (singular)	13.58%	11	106,044
Noun (proper)	2.47%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	81	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: WAGING

Expression using "WAGING": waging of war. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WAGING

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
peace waging woman	5
modern waging war	4
peace waging	3
waging	2
am see waging	2
waging war	2
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Modern Translations: WAGING

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

German		wackelnden. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		対戦 (competition, waging war). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たいせ�" (competition, great battle, great war, lichen, waging war). (various references)

Korean		수행 (Executing, Prosecuting). (various references)

Pig Latin		agingway

Swedish		krigföring (waging of war, waging war, warfare). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: WAGING

Derivations
	Words ending with "WAGING": asswaging, swaging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"WAGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wagenr, waggen, wagi, waring, wasing, wazing, wigin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WAGING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "WAGING" (pronounced wā"jing)
4	-ā" j i ng	aging, disengaging, engaging, enraging, gauging, paging, raging, staging.
3	-j i ng	acknowledging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, dislodging, disparaging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, encouraging, enlarging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, purging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, resurging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging.
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Anagrams: WAGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-n-w"
	-1 letter: aging, awing, wigan.
	-2 letters: agin, gain, gang, giga, gnaw, wain, wing.
	-3 letters: ain, ani, awn, gag, gan, gig, gin, nag, naw, wag, wan, wig, win.
	-4 letters: ag, ai, an, aw, in, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-n-w"
	+1 letter: gawking, gawping, gnawing, swaging, wagging.
	+2 letters: gaywings, gnawings, swagging, twanging, wagering, waggling, wagoning, wangling, waygoing, whanging.
	+3 letters: asswaging, guffawing, jigsawing, twangling, waggoning, waughting, waygoings, wrangling.
	+4 letters: earwigging, outgnawing, swaggering, wigwagging.
	+5 letters: downgrading, waggishness.
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