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wage slave

NOUN
wage earner
Synonyms
STRONGEST
blue collar blue-collar worker breadwinner
WEAK
employee income producer jobholder one who brings home the bacon salaried worker staff member staffer wageworker

Example Sentences

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Just think, if only I had used that money to purchase Apple stock on the installment plan I'd be rich today instead of a wage slave.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2011

As an ordinary wage slave, I find the drop in the nation's production no mystery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever you do, don't become a wage slave, writes Dennis.

From Time Magazine Archive

With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that begins with a free soul and ends with a wage slave.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would be no more free than I am, and I am no more free than the person who is sometimes described as a "wage slave."

From War-Time Financial Problems by Withers, Hartley