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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How are you “selfish” after 2½ years of primary breadwinning and housekeeping?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
“Marriage was a relationship between the dominant, breadwinning husband and the subordinate, child-rearing wife,” Ginsburg continued.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020
The household quarrels about cleaning and goal-setting and competitive breadwinning have an intriguing texture.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2019
But consider the national policy focus responsible for that lifestyle: Sweden prizes gender equality, universal child care and a “dual earner-carer” model that features women and men sharing breadwinning and child-rearing roles.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019
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
