nine-to-fiver

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Noun
  • This film exposes the harsh contrast between the lives of people who enjoy cutting-edge technology in Silicon Valley and the laborers in the Global South who teach the machines to see.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Finding enough workers to fill open landscaping positions has long been a struggle, even when firms can bring in foreign laborers.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
    Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
  • Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The workmen complied, and Faulí got down and scuttled through the opening.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Reminiscent of the Row or the elegant workingwoman aesthetic of Celine’s Phoebe Philo era, the clothes are instantly covetable.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • To avoid being cost-burdened, a minimum-wage earner in Miami would have to work more than 100 hours a week.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, average wage earners were forced out of the new car market.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Offload drudge work and risky tasks so humans can focus on safer, more creative work.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.
    Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Noun
  • The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
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“Nine-to-fiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine-to-fiver. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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