wage slave
Example Sentences
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Just think, if only I had used that money to purchase Apple stock on the installment plan I'd be rich today instead of a wage slave.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2011
He is not the dirt farmer or wage slave of the past, but the civil servant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As an ordinary wage slave, I find the drop in the nation's production no mystery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Its caveat, which any wage slave should ponder, is that you can be hurt by your bosses' strength or weakness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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During that part of the day he works for himself just as truly as the modern wage slave works for himself during a part of his day.
From Socialism: Positive and Negative by La Monte, Robert Rives
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.