wage-earning

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wage-earning Definition

• (s) working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
• (s) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

wage-earning Synonyms

• blue-collar
• propertyless
• wage-earning
• working-class