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wage earner
noun as in person earning income
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More than 36 percent have only one wage earner, and nearly 80 percent have no wage earners at all.
It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.
The handsome sister is the younger; she never, when she was a wage-earner, went through the streets alone.
The independent wage-earner found his hope of political recognition in allegiance to the political machines.
Mention the trouble if the man of the house is sick and out of work, and there is no other wage earner.
Where before he had been a subaltern not always even a wage-earner—now all in a moment he had been transformed into a high chief.
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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wage earner, such as: breadwinner, employee, blue-collar, blue-collar worker, income producer, and jobholder.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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