wage
noun
Often wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week.
had waged
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past perfectof wage.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Activist investor Engine Capital, which owns more than 3% of UniFirst shares, had waged a proxy fight at the company while pushing for a sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The decision represented a major defeat for Councilmember Imelda Padilla, who had waged a campaign to block the lease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Ms Adetshina only competed in the final stages of the competition, whereas the other contestants had waged a longer campaign.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
Mr. Xi argued that the Communist Party had waged an “all out people’s war to stop the spread of the virus.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
Archbishop Bancroft, who had waged through his chaplain the war on the exorcists, was not long dead.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace
