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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wage-earning, working-classadjective

    working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries

    "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"

  2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collaradjective

    of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers

    "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw

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  1. wage-earning

    Wage-earning refers to receiving a regular payment, often on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, for work or services provided, typically in a non-salaried job position. Wage earners are usually paid based on the amount of time they have worked rather than a fixed salary.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wage-earning in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wage-earning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of wage-earning in a Sentence

  1. Pope Pius XI:

    It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.


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