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
The women’s movement combined with the hard facts of the economy created a world in which almost no one envisioned young women with a distinctly different wage-earning future from men.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2020
“A lot of these Navajo men were in their prime wage-earning years. When they passed on, they were diagnosed with lung cancer or various types of lung ailments.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2019
The resulting totals gave the present average weekly expenditure on each article, and consequently the proportion which the expenditure on each article bears to the total expenditure of the average wage-earning household.
From Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland June 1922 by Affairs, Ministry of Economic
