wage earner

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noun

a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.

Words nearby wage earner

wafture, wag, wage, wage determination, wage differential, wage earner, wage incentive, wage scale, wage slave, wage-push inflation, wager

Origin of wage earner

First recorded in 1880–85

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Examples from the Web for wage earner

The wage-earner and the salaried man are rarely quite without material wealth.
The Principles of Economics|Frank A. Fetter
One was of a woman whose husband had been a wage-earner, and, with six or eight children, had been able to save nothing.
The Living Present|Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Were it not for that extraneous circumstance, the showing for the wage-earner's advance would be even greater.
The Unpopular Review Vol. I|Various
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.
McClure's Magazine December, 1895|Edited by Ida M. Tarbell

In a more primitive industry each man is wage-earner, capitalist, and enterpriser combined in one.
The Principles of Economics|Frank A. Fetter

British Dictionary definitions for wage earner

wage earner

US wage worker

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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wage earner

noun

Words related to wage earner

Words nearby wage earner

Origin of wage earner

Examples from the Web for wage earner

British Dictionary definitions for wage earner

US wage worker

noun