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Definition: Wage Earner |
Wage EarnerNoun1. Someone who earn wages in return for their labor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Statistics | Persons who work for an employer and receive wages, salaries, room and board, or other compensation for their efforts. This includes domestic employees who are regularly paid to work for any employer(s). It also includes corporate employees. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Wage EarnerSynonym: earner (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wage Earner |
| English words defined with "wage earner": pay envelope, pay packet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wage earner": all items, average wage earner ♦ pay bill ♦ wage bill. (references) |
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Economic History | Swaziland | Although close to 72% of Swazis live in rural areas, nearly every homestead has a wage earner. (references) |
Political Economy | GHANA | The current daily minimum wage is cedis 5,500, about 75 cents at the present rate of exchange, a sum that does not permit a single wage earner to support a family. (references) |
Travel | Korea | In the majority of Korean households, the father is the primary wage earner, while the mother stays at home. (references) |
Women | Switzerland | Since the man is the primary wage earner in most marriages, when the income is too low to support both parties, it is usually the wife (and children) who are forced to survive on public assistance. (references) |
Switzerland | A federal marriage law provides that in the event of a divorce, assets accumulated during the marriage will be divided equally; however, the Supreme Court ruled that the primary wage earner must be left with sufficient income to remain above the poverty level. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Saint Kitts and Nevis | These provide a barely adequate living for a wage earner and family; many workers supplement wages by keeping small animals such as goats and chickens. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "wage earner": average wage earner. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wage earner plan | 12 |
wage earner | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wage earner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrogëtar (Pensionary, pensioner, salaried, stipendiary, wageworker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الكاسب (winner), الأجير (employee, worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | глава на семейството, наемен работник (help), надничар (day laborer, day labourer, daysman, daytaler, wageworker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | osoba pracující za mzdu, živitel rodiny (breadwinner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | loenmodtager (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), lønmodtager (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), arbejdstager (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker, worker), arbejder (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, hand, laborer, labourer, operative, rank and file, wage worker, worker, working man, workman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | werknemer (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker, worker), loontrekker (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), loontrekkende (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | palkkatyöläinen (worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | salarié (wage worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Lohnempfänger (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker, wage-earner, wages-earner, working class). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μισθωτόσ εργάτησ, μισθωτόσ (hired, mercenary, paid, salaried), μισθωτός (employed, employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), μεροκαματιάρησ (jobber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שכיר (labourer, salaried worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | családfenntartó (breadwinner, provider), bérmunkás (wageworker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | salariato (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage earning classes, wage worker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ben ny faillee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ageway earneray trabalhador assalariado (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), ganhador, assalariado (employee, journeyman, Pensionary, salaried, salaried worker, stipendiary, wage earning classes, wage worker). (various references) salariat (employee, paid, regular, remunerated, salaried, stipendiary). (various references) работник (cottar, hand, wageworker, workman, workmen, yardman, yardmen), кормилец (breadwinner), наемный работник. (various references) najamni radnik (wageworker), nadničar (day laborer, day labourer, hodman, peon). (various references) trabajador por cuenta ajena (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), trabajador asalariado (employed earner, employed person, employed persons by place of residence, employee, wage worker), asalariado (hireling, mercenary, salaried). (various references) löntagare (employee, salaried person, wage worker), inkomsttagare, familjeförsörjare (bread winner, breadwinner, bread-winner). (various references) ücretli (gainful, mercenary, paid, salaried, stipendiary). (various references) робітник (blue collar, employee, roustabout, shopman, worker, working man, workman), годувальник (bread winner, provider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-g-n-r-r-w" | |
-3 letters: arrange, eagerer, greener, regreen, reneger, renewer, wagerer. | |
-4 letters: earner, enrage, garner, genera, gnawer, nearer, ranger, reearn, regear, regrew, renege, warner, warren, weaner, wearer. | |
-5 letters: agene, agree, anear, anger, areae, arena, aware, eager, eagre, genre, gnarr, grana, green, newer, ngwee, ragee, ranee, range, rawer, regna, renew, reran, rewan, wager, wrang. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 67 65 45 61 72 6E 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01000101 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a g e   E a r n e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0067 0065 0045 0061 0072 006E 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576773712396784807184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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