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Definitions: Wage-earning |
Wage-earningAdjective1. Working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor". 2. Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Wage-earningSynonyms: blue-collar (adj), propertyless (adj), working-class (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: non-wage-earning migrant worker (labor), wage earning classes (statistics, labor), wage earning farm classes (food & agriculture, statistics), wage-earning bargeman (transportation). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Bangladesh | However, women still fill only a small fraction of other wage-earning jobs. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kiribati | An estimated 10 percent of the wage-earning workers are union members. (references) |
Kiribati | Workers in the public sector (80 percent of the wage-earning work force) work 361/4 hours per week, with overtime pay for additional hours. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wage-earning" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Wage-earning" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 70% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "wage-earning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 薪水赢得. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 임금 벌음. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | age-earningway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-g-i-n-n-r-w" | |
-2 letters: greenwing. | |
-3 letters: agreeing, anearing, angering, enraging, gangrene, greening, reneging, renewing, wagering. | |
-4 letters: aginner, anergia, earning, engager, engrain, gearing, gnawing, grannie, greeing, naggier, nearing, ranging, reginae, wanigan, warning, weaning, wearing, weening, wennier. | |
-5 letters: ageing, angina, aweing, awning, earing, earwig, engage, engine, enrage, gaeing, gainer, ganger, garage, geegaw, geeing, genera, ginger, ginner, gnawer, grange, greige, inaner. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 67 65 2D 65 61 72 6E 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01100111 01100101 00101101 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a g e - e a r n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0067 0065 002D 0065 0061 0072 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)576773711571678480758073 |
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