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breadwinner - use in sentences
Converse of object
- become: Very early in his life Chekhov became the family breadwinner.
- lose: Why should a family lose a breadwinner and the company and its directors that committed this crime lose nothing?
- have: The liberty of the driver's family to go on having a breadwinner?
Preposition: in
- family: However, this does not only apply to the main breadwinner in a family, especially where there are children to be brought up.
Adjective modifier
- sole: Two years ago, her father, the sole breadwinner died of AIDS.
- male: Women must go to work to survive without a male breadwinner or to help him make both ends meet.
- main: Women were quite often left to bring up children with the eldest son the main breadwinner.
- major: Our employees are now the major breadwinners in their families.
- only: She was the only breadwinner left to the household.
- primary: For the greater part of their married life, Mrs Willis was the primary breadwinner.
Modifies a noun
- role: The traditional breadwinner role they were brought up with now sits uneasily with new ideas of more 'hands on ' parenting.
- family: With the demise of the male breadwinner family, there has been something of a ' paradigm shift ' in gender relations.
Noun used with modifier
- family: Family breadwinner is would replace whole time without avoid toxic clients.
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