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breadwinner

[ bred-win-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

breadwinner

/ ˈbrɛdˌwɪnə /

First recorded in 1810–20; bread + winner

Injuring the family breadwinner is the same as injuring yourself.

Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished.

Even though my dad was the breadwinner, he always had this joke that he changed my diaper once, so she had a lot on her plate.

Four years ago, Omar became the primary breadwinner for his eight member family after his father passed away.

Last month, a Pew study showed that 40 percent of U.S. households now have a woman as the leading breadwinner.

There are many thousands of families in which the breadwinner does not earn more than ten dollars a week at best.

There was a great contrast between the genius and the breadwinner, the half-beast of burden.

The man was not above playing the spy, and he had of course a jealous interest in the fate of that chief breadwinner—his daughter.

Surely he is a stern moralist who would deny this satisfaction to the breadwinner of a family.

But she was not educated, and she was the chief breadwinner of the family, and her mother leant upon her so much.

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