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waging

verb
SayWAYJ-ing/ˈweɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

1 meaning of waging

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle of wage.

    The general spent years waging a costly campaign across the northern border.

    Activists are waging a relentless legal battle to protect the wetlands.

    Note

    One -ing form does two jobs: a participle in they are waging a campaign, and a gerund in the waging of war. Its living sense is the contest one, and it takes a direct object such as war, battle or campaign. Most older meanings of wage (to bet, to hazard a danger, to hire, to give security) are obsolete, so in a modern text waging almost never means wagering.

waging is a form of wage

wage, verb: To fight a war or pursue a campaign or other sustained struggle. Full entry

Forms
wagewages he/she/itwaging -ing formwaged past tense, past participle
Spelling
wage → waging: drop the e, add -ing

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