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wage-earner
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person earning income |
| Synonyms: | breadwinner, employee, income producer, jobholder, one who brings home the bacon, salaried worker, staff member, staffer, wage slave, wageworker |
| Main Entry: | jobholder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | employee |
| Synonyms: | agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey, domestic, hand, help, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, laborer, member, operator, pink collar, plug*, representative, sales help, salesperson, servant, slave, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, worker, working stiff |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grass roots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ordinary people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, hoi polloi, laboring class, middle class, proletariat, rank and file, the masses, wage-earners, working class, working people |
| Main Entry: | working class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common laborers |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, common laborer, factory laborer, factory laborers, grass roots, laboring class, plebeians, proles, proletariat, rank and file, the other half, unskilled laborer, unskilled laborers, wage-earners, workers, workfolk, working people, working stiff, working stiffs, workpeople |
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