wage-earning   (TTS Sound)

The adj wage-earning has 2 senses

• wage-earning, working-class -- (working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor")


• propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar -- (of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw)