wage-earning

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wage-earning - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wage-earning
      adj 1: working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual)
             salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as
             well as industrial labor" [syn: wage-earning, working-  class
             ]
      2: of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial
         laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
         [syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-   collar
         ]