Wage-earning

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wage-earning
       adj 1: working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual)
              salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as
              well as industrial labor" [syn: {working-class}]
       2: of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial
          laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"-


          G.B.Shaw [syn: {propertyless}, {working-class}, {blue-collar}]