Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. One who earns money.
- n. A profitable product or scheme.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. someone who earns wages in return for labor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who earn wages in return for their labor
Examples
“The wage earner is killed by a doctor addicted to drugs and because of this kills the wage earner.”
“So, even though the high earner is paying four times as much, he only has to work 1 hour for every 19 hours that the less well off family does to pay their taxes.”
Tax-eaters, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“They are probably US citizens, and now their primary wage earner is in jail.”
“Great story and more proof, Cyra, that the average wage earner is not a degenerate junkie milking the system as the Right likes to pretend … Great job!”
“Well then, what percentage of the FICA contribution of a $40,000 earner is being used to fund the current discretionary portion of the Federal budget?”
“I’ll jump to the chase: In the bottom three quintiles, a French wage earner is pulling in more than an American.”
“Once you were hired as a part time minimum wage earner, that is where you stayed.”
“But the oil wells can be run virtually independently of the rest of the economy; so, though to a lesser extent, can the diamond industry, Angola's second big earner, which is managed by South Africans.”
“To take from a man his earnings, is theft; but to take the earner is a compound, life-long theft; and we who profess to follow in the footsteps of our Redeemer, should do our utmost to extirpate slavery from the land.”
“She is a big wage earner, which is good for her but get off the Obummer band wagon and be proud already!.”
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Telofy Thx. :-) Jan 4, 2009
sarra Auuuugh. It makes vastly more sense to assume that WordNet has made a typo. Don't fret, telofy! Jan 3, 2009
Telofy "someone who earn wages in return for their labor":
Is someone plural, or earn subjunctive and their synonym for his/her? The latter version I wouldn't understand really... Help. Jan 3, 2009