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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Its caveat, which any wage slave should ponder, is that you can be hurt by your bosses' strength or weakness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then occurred one of those familiar tragedies of the wage slave.

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon