wage-earning
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Adjective:
- Relating to or engaged in work for which one receives regular monetary payment, typically on an hourly or per-task basis: Describes individuals, activities, or status associated with receiving wages.
- Characteristic of the working class, especially manual or industrial laborers: Pertaining to the social or economic group whose primary income is from wages.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The new policy aims to protect wage-earning employees in the manufacturing sector.
- She comes from a traditional wage-earning family.
- A large portion of the country's population is in wage-earning employment.
Advanced Usage
- Used to distinguish labor compensated via wages from salaried, freelance, or profit-sharing work structures.
- The study compared the job security of salaried professionals versus wage-earning staff.
Variants and Related Words
- Wage earner (noun): A person who works for wages.
- The program provides benefits to low-income wage earners.
- Wage (noun/verb): Regular payment for work (noun) or to carry on (a war or campaign) (verb).
- Earning (noun): Money obtained in return for labor or services.
Synonyms
- Working-class
- Blue-collar
- Hourly-paid
- Proletarian (in socioeconomic contexts)
Antonyms
- Salaried
- Professional (in some contexts)
- Self-employed
- Capital-owning
Related Phrases
- Wage-earning population: The segment of a population that works for wages.
- Primary wage earner: The main income provider in a household.
Adjective
- of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
- party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw
- working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
- working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor