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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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