Word Study
wage-earning
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wage-earning has 2 senses
- wage-earning(s = adj.all) working-class - working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
- wage-earning(s = adj.all) blue-collar, propertyless, working-class - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"
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