workwoman

noun

Definition of workwomannext
as in wage earner

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  1. wage earner
  2. workman
  3. workingman
  4. laborer
Noun
  • That tax cut was to be paid for by raising the cap for individuals earning more than $250,000 annually and requiring more Social Security taxes to be paid by those wage earners.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Even in 2019, the city of Milwaukee was the only municipality in the county where a single average wage earner could afford the average house by themselves.
    Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of wage earner
Noun
  • Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In the Act One climax, one of the workmen, Polish poet Joe Pakulski (Devin Cortez), falls to his death, leaving behind his pregnant wife, an Indigenous woman named Rudy (also Kabeary) who has been working beside him on the high beams.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 July 2024
Definition of workman
Noun
  • 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
  • The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Definition of workingman
Noun
  • None offered any apology to Korean forced laborers for the harsh treatment at the mines.
    MARI YAMAGUCHI AND KIM TONG-HYUNG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Delaying the age for Medicare eligibility will hurt laborers in physically demanding jobs, too.
    Antonio Fins, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of laborer
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“Workwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workwoman. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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