wage-earner

打工仔,工薪族,打工者,打工族

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ingrass roots

Synonyms

middle america中美洲,中美国家,中美,美国中部 common people普通人,老百姓,平民百姓,普通百姓 hoi polloi普通人,普通老百姓,普通百姓,普通民众 laboring class劳动阶级,劳动阶层,劳工阶层,劳工阶级 middle class中产阶级,中产阶层,中產階級,中间阶层 proletariat无产阶级,无产者,无产,普罗大众 rank and file官兵,官兵们,职级,群众 the masses群众,人民群众,大众,群众的

Examples

His ideas took hold, requiring ever more managers to watch the workers and the number of supervisors grew at more than double the rate of wage earners.
To grasp how low the personal tax burden of the country’s richest Americans is compared with typical wage earners, you also need to count other forms of federal taxes.
Creature’s Cullen-Shute wanted to take SPL following the birth of his son in 2015, but being the higher wage earner meant it wasn’t viable.
The census indicates that Lawrence is the employer and Willie is a wage earner on his father’s farm.
While restaurant wine sales took a hit that will resonate for years, sales overall benefited from the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on lower-income wage earners.
He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
The Supreme Court just handed a big holiday present to low-wage workers across America in the form of a giant f*ck you.
Who will want to enter this profession for a poverty wage and little or no paid time off?
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.

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wage-earner

打工仔,工薪族,打工者,打工族

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a person who works for wages, especially a laborer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ingrass roots

Synonyms

Examples

His ideas took hold, requiring ever more managers to watch the workers and the number of supervisors grew at more than double the rate of wage earners.
To grasp how low the personal tax burden of the country’s richest Americans is compared with typical wage earners, you also need to count other forms of federal taxes.
Creature’s Cullen-Shute wanted to take SPL following the birth of his son in 2015, but being the higher wage earner meant it wasn’t viable.
The census indicates that Lawrence is the employer and Willie is a wage earner on his father’s farm.
While restaurant wine sales took a hit that will resonate for years, sales overall benefited from the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on lower-income wage earners.
He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
The Supreme Court just handed a big holiday present to low-wage workers across America in the form of a giant f*ck you.
Who will want to enter this profession for a poverty wage and little or no paid time off?
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.

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