as in wage slave
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Recent Examples of wage earner
Layoffs, meanwhile, hit wage earners harder than those with multiple income streams or significant investments.
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners.
—Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 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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In 1893, workmen laid dynamite charges and started blowing them up.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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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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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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