breadwinner
noun
a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
breadwinning
-
a word derived from
breadwinner.
Example Sentences
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The pressures of male breadwinning still top the reasons a generation is turning away from marriage, according to a government survey last year of more than 10,000 South Koreans.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2022
Like many low-income, breadwinning Brazilian women, Gonçalves worked for the same family for years in one of the country’s most expensive ZIP codes, 75 miles from her own home.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2020
The household quarrels about cleaning and goal-setting and competitive breadwinning have an intriguing texture.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2019
The whole movie is about the subtle and obvious ways in which men have been overly sensitized and women made self-estranged through breadwinning.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2015
It is with hope for the material betterment of the breadwinning woman, for the moral advancement of the semi-breadwinner and the esthetic improvement of the country, that I submit what seems a rational plan.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
