wage earner
wage earner
Definition
wage earner
noun
a person who works for wages
wage earner
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: In United States, more than two thirds of the families now have two wage earners.
Adjective modifier
- main: In Scotland only 57 % of households said they would be prepared if the main wage earner were to be made redundant.
- low: Tax rates on low wage earners have been falling.
- average: At present they pay a higher percentage of their earnings in National Insurance contributions than the above average wage earner.
- high: Mr Harlowe being the higher wage earner paid all the mortgage installments and refurbishment costs to the property.
- daily: They are mostly unorganized daily wage earners, who gather at the mill gates every morning.
- only: The only wage earner in the family is eldest Michael, who contributes £ 20 a week from his factory job.
Modifies a noun
- person: The wage earner person 's life form is, as indicated by the term, tied to being a wage earner.
Preposition: in
- family: The only wage earner in the family is eldest Michael, who contributes £ 20 a week from his factory job.
wage-earner Quotes
To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.
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