as in wage slave
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Recent Examples of wage earner
With growing numbers of wage earners returning to offices, emerging work campuses are gaining fresh attention.
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Lowering corporate income taxes has never actually trickled down to wage earners, or even investment in new factories, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted in a recent study.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
That adds a lot of part-time wage earners to the state's statistics and creates an experience gap that many women's earnings never recover from.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 23 July 2024
Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
—Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Lowering corporate income taxes has never actually trickled down to wage earners, or even investment in new factories, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted in a recent study.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
That adds a lot of part-time wage earners to the state's statistics and creates an experience gap that many women's earnings never recover from.
—Erin Alberty, Axios, 23 July 2024
Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
—Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage earner
Noun
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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
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This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Olsen is wearing an oversized black workman’s jacket, very similar to, if not an exact piece from The Row in a different color.—
Aamina Inayat Khan,
StyleCaster,
20 Mar. 2025
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According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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