workwoman

noun

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as in wage earner

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  1. wage earner
  2. workman
  3. workingman
  4. laborer
Noun
  • Those who stand to benefit the most, Gleckman said, are tipped wage earners who make more money, such as waiters at higher-end restaurants.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The gap demonstrates the extent to which inflation during Biden and Harris’ term, though now slowing back to its long-term average, has impacted wage earners.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of wage earner
Noun
  • Navy workman jackets appeared in the lockers of Chargers players.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The workmen who installed them botched the installation.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of workman
Noun
  • This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of workingman
Noun
  • Over nine months, these big cats systematically attacked workers’ camps at night, dragging victims—who included African laborers, Indian railway workers and even camp supervisors—into the darkness.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Hopeful men lined up, waiting for construction jobs that would open when laborers inevitably died on the job.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of laborer
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