wage earner meaning

Noun: wage earner

1. Someone who earn wages in return for their labour
   - earner

Derived forms: wage earners

Type of: jobholder

[Business]
noun [C]

a person who earns money, especially a person who works for wages (= is paid every week):

There are three wage earners in the family.

a high/low/top wage earner

• wage-earner:    n. [c]someone who ...
• earner:    Noun: earner  ...
• wage:    Noun: wage &n ...

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1. a census in 1980 revealed that approximately 6 percent of rural nigerien men are wage earners.
2. the aim should be to correct the bias against agriculture and exports, which often favors urban wage earners.
3. new stage of the developing history of the wage earners
4. in our family both my husband and i are wage earners
5. a new stage of the developing history of the wage earners