wageworker

Definition of wageworkernext

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Noun
  • Two raises have since been implemented, taking subminimum wage earners from $9.48 an hour to $12.62.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As the Journal notes, the primary reason many wealthy blue state residents will benefit is a provision in the tax bill that quadruples how much in state and local levies an individual wage earner may write-off on his or her federal return.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
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
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“Wageworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wageworker. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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