wage-earning
Example Sentences
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With the death of the wage-earning father, the family struggled in true 19th century Dickensian fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Walker, who represents Monongalia County, added, “It affects people of color tremendously. It affects our neighbors in rural communities. It affects low-income wage-earning West Virginians, and it upsets me to my core.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
And many of them have viewed the exemption as a bad policy because business owners escape income taxes while their wage-earning workers cannot.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2016
They were also “pulled” by the promise of consistent, wage-earning work.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
If the term "steady" is used where the world of wealth and leisure would use fiancé, the under wage-earning world is reached.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
