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wage earner
noun
- a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.
wage earner
noun
- a person who works for wages, esp as distinguished from one paid a salary
- the person who earns money to support a household by working
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wage earner1
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Example Sentences
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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