wage-earning

Example Sentences

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With the death of the wage-earning father, the family struggled in true 19th century Dickensian fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Walker, who represents Monongalia County, added, “It affects people of color tremendously. It affects our neighbors in rural communities. It affects low-income wage-earning West Virginians, and it upsets me to my core.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

And many of them have viewed the exemption as a bad policy because business owners escape income taxes while their wage-earning workers cannot.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2016

They were also “pulled” by the promise of consistent, wage-earning work.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The relations of master and servant having passed from slavery to wage-earning, are now in the first stage of evolution from wage-earning to profit-sharing.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil