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Antonyms for wage-earner
Grammar : Noun |
Definition of wage-earner
- As in grass roots : noun ordinary people
- As in wage earner : noun person earning income
- As in working class : noun common laborers
- As in jobholder : noun employee
- As in employee : noun person being paid for working for another or a corporation
- He is obliged to offer himself as a wage-earner or a tenant.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 » by Various
- At the age of fifteen Charles embarked again on his career as a wage-earner.
- Extract from : « Victorian Worthies » by George Henry Blore
- For the wage-earner cannot live without his wage, and the wage was not forthcoming.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Bread » by Peter Kropotkin
- She liked the personal independence which was accorded her as a wage-earner.
- Extract from : « Song of the Lark » by Willa Cather
- But a new force had come into American politics—the wage-earner.
- Extract from : « Races and Immigrants in America » by John R. Commons
- The future of American democracy is the future of the American wage-earner.
- Extract from : « Races and Immigrants in America » by John R. Commons
- It is a distinction of function, the function of the capitalist and the function of the wage-earner.
- Extract from : « Socialism and Democracy in Europe » by Samuel P. Orth
- The wage-earner was master of the situation and did not hesitate to make his power felt.
- Extract from : « The History of England » by T.F. Tout
- Thereafter El Nacional turned out with the other coast craft and became a wage-earner.
- Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
- In every industrial struggle in that sweated city he interposed his strong word to demand justice for the wage-earner.
- Extract from : « The Open Secret of Ireland » by T. M. Kettle
Synonyms for wage-earner
- agent
- apprentice
- assistant
- attendant
- blue collar
- blue-collar workers
- breadwinner
- clerk
- cog
- common laborer
- common people
- company person
- craftsperson
- desk jockey
- domestic
- employee
- factory laborer
- factory laborers
- grass roots
- hand
- help
- hired gun
- hired hand
- hireling
- hoi polloi
- income producer
- jobholder
- laborer
- laboring class
- member
- Middle America
- middle class
- one who brings home the bacon
- operator
- pink collar
- plebeians
- plug
- proles
- proletariat
- rank and file
- representative
- salaried worker
- sales help
- salesperson
- servant
- slave
- staff member
- staffer
- the masses
- the other half
- unskilled laborer
- unskilled laborers
- wage slave
- wage-earner
- wage-earners
- wageworker
- white collar
- worker
- workers
- workfolk
- working class
- working people
- working stiff
- working stiffs
- workpeople
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