as in wage earner
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Noun
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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 -
By August 2022, lower wage earners were averaging 7% yearly pay increases compared to 4.5% for the higher earners, the Atlanta Fed data shows.—
Paul Davidson,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The incident caught the world's attention as Japanese workmen repaired the road within a matter of days.—
Arata Yamamoto,
NBC News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Work was nearing completion on the Baptist church as workmen posed atop the steeple still under construction.—
Ray Hanley,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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
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His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.—
Sushmita Pathak,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Mar. 2025
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The minimum wage standards required of firms receiving CHIPS funding, for example, could have been applied to all categories of workers, not just to laborers and mechanics.—
Mariana Mazzucato,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Workwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workwoman. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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