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wage earner






wage earner   
noun

Definition of wage earner

: a person who works for wages or salary



Recent Examples on the Web


//But middle wage earners are starting to feel the squeeze.
— Wired, "AI May Not Kill Your Job—Just Change It," 31 Oct. 2019
//The percentage of private-sector GDP from wage earners has fallen since 2001, by an amount that’s almost equal to the rise in percentage of GDP that now comes from capital income.
— Los Angeles Times, "Newsletter: On Labor Day, California workers struggle while unions prepare for major 2020 battle," 2 Sep. 2019
//David Gilbert, also a summit organizer and president and CEO of Destination Cleveland, is confident the views of low-wage earners, and others economic prosperity has bypassed, will be reflected among the summit’s participants.
— Olivera Perkins, cleveland.com, "Will Cleveland Rising be more inclusive than predecessors? Summit organizers hope so," 11 Sep. 2019
//The president made a burst of concessions at the end of the year, calling off the fuel-tax increase and boosting the incomes of minimum-wage earners.
— Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, "French Protesters Hang Up Their Yellow Vests," 16 June 2019
//Household incomes have risen because multiple wage earners have moved in together to get by.
— Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, "Number of households who double-up still moving up in Colorado," 22 Aug. 2019
//Community groups, smaller banks and advocates for low-wage earners have been calling for the Fed to limit the delay and to create a public sector option for real-time payments.
— BostonGlobe.com, "Gunmakers’ stock rises following mass shootings," 6 Aug. 2019
//Roughly half the nation's wage earners take home about $31,500 or less.
— Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, "Oregon could soon have nation's most progressive paid family leave law, will the US follow?," 28 July 2019
//If a below-average wage earner gets a raise, the government takes half of every additional dollar.
— Adam N. Michel And Travis Nix, Twin Cities, "Michel, Nix: Want ‘free’ programs and bigger government? Expect higher, European-style taxes for all," 21 July 2019


First Known Use of wage earner

1861, in the meaning defined above



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