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  • as ingrass roots
  • as inwage earner
  • as inworking class
  • as injobholder
  • as inemployee

synonyms for wage-earner

  • Middle America
  • common people
  • hoi polloi
  • laboring class
  • middle class
  • proletariat
  • rank and file
  • the masses
  • wage-earners
  • working class
  • working people
  • breadwinner
  • employee
  • blue collar
  • blue-collar worker
  • income producer
  • jobholder
  • one who brings home the bacon
  • salaried worker
  • staffer
  • staff member
  • wage slave
  • wageworker
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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wage-earner, such as: common people, hoi polloi, laboring class, middle america, middle class, and proletariat.
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How to use wage-earner in a sentence

His ideas took hold, requiring ever more managers to watch the workers and the number of supervisors grew at more than double the rate of wage earners.
THERE IS A BETTER WAY TO USE POWER AT WORK. THIS FORGOTTEN BUSINESS GURU HAS THE SECRETSMATTHEW BARZUNJUNE 15, 2021TIME
To grasp how low the personal tax burden of the country’s richest Americans is compared with typical wage earners, you also need to count other forms of federal taxes.
YOU MAY BE PAYING A HIGHER TAX RATE THAN A BILLIONAIREBY PAUL KIEL, JEFF ERNSTHAUSEN AND JESSE EISINGERJUNE 8, 2021PROPUBLICA
Creature’s Cullen-Shute wanted to take SPL following the birth of his son in 2015, but being the higher wage earner meant it wasn’t viable.
‘PAID LEAVE IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE RELEGATED TO A PERK IN TALENT WARS’: AGENCIES AIM TO RESHAPE SHARED PARENTAL LEAVE POLICIESJESSICA DAVIESMAY 25, 2021DIGIDAY
The census indicates that Lawrence is the employer and Willie is a wage earner on his father’s farm.
TIM SCOTT OFTEN TALKS ABOUT HIS GRANDFATHER AND COTTON. THERE’S MORE TO THAT TALE.GLENN KESSLERAPRIL 23, 2021WASHINGTON POST
While restaurant wine sales took a hit that will resonate for years, sales overall benefited from the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on lower-income wage earners.
WINE SALES WILL KEEP RISING AFTER THE PANDEMIC, A NEW REPORT PREDICTS — BUT MAYBE NOT FOR LONGDAVE MCINTYREJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON POST
It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBB
The handsome sister is the younger; she never, when she was a wage-earner, went through the streets alone.
THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITYLILLIAN WILLIAM BETTS
The independent wage-earner found his hope of political recognition in allegiance to the political machines.
THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITYLILLIAN WILLIAM BETTS
Mention the trouble if the man of the house is sick and out of work, and there is no other wage earner.
THE COMPLETE CLUB BOOK FOR WOMENCAROLINE FRENCH BENTON
Where before he had been a subaltern not always even a wage-earner—now all in a moment he had been transformed into a high chief.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
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