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workingwoman

[ wur-king-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural work·ing·wom·en.
  1. a woman who is regularly employed.


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Gender Note

See -woman.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of workingwoman1

First recorded in 1850–55; working + woman

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Example Sentences

Besides, no plain, everyday workingwoman could enjoy herself in your car because her conscience wouldn't let her.

Another has a great scheme for starting a "workingwoman's home" and wants Miss Anthony to furnish the money.

Naturally, the workingwoman who is all alone in the world cannot exist on such a sum.

They knew her to be an artisan's wife, an ordinary workingwoman.

Below the bourgeoise was the workingwoman, whose ideas were limited to those of a savage and who was a woman only in sex.

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