The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result WAGE
- Pursue wife over a number of years
- Whiskey taken before degenerate conduct
- Pay to conduct
- Joker finally made payment
- Wife, decline to carry on!
- Money earned with time
- Pay freeze finally put on comedian
- Contend for one’s due?
- … was initially maturity of income
- Appear satisfied as setter, say — finish off clue and carry on
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What does WAGE mean?
WAGE noun- (often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
- To wager, bet.
- To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
- To employ for wages; to hire.
- To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
- To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
- To give security for the performance of.