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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A woman who works for wages.

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  • noun A woman who works in exchange for payment, especially one that does manual labour

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Examples

  • She was a New Woman, that still unusual amalgamation of homemaker and workingwoman: days filled with job, volunteering and clubs, homemaking skills honed down to the bare minimum.

    Jamie Schler: A Table, Les Enfants! Dinner Is Served! Jamie Schler 2010

  • She might be a workingwoman, a volunteer, a mom, or part of all of these.

    Ellen Susman: Balancing Life: Interview with Dana Buchman 2008

  • I suppose we should have quotas on how many kids a workingwoman can have.

    Morning Buzz: Meet the ‘pitbull with lipstick’ 2008

  • This may prove to be useful for the workingwoman who can pick up the beauty products as and when required from the beauty salon.

    Choosing Your Beauty Salon Emii 2007

  • ANUCHA BROWN SANDERS, PLAINTIFF: What I did here, I did for every workingwoman in America.

    CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007 2007

  • We had noticed that Cecilia's indignation on account of the workingwoman of Germany was extreme if the woman was pretty.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • This, however, only added fuel to the flames, for Anna, in an emotional speech, "A Struggle for Life," told the tragic story of Hester Vaughn, a workingwoman who had been accused of murdering her illegitimate child.

    Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Alma Lutz

  • Besides, no plain, everyday workingwoman could enjoy herself in your car because her conscience wouldn't let her.

    Roast Beef, Medium Edna Ferber 1926

  • And, because it was queer that a song should seem to be coming out of the ground, a costermonger stopped, and then a little boy, and then a workingwoman, and then a lady.

    The Lost Prince 1914

  • If so, how will the workingwoman of England, already inferior economically to the ladies who are benefited by the Shackleton bill, [4] be able to work with their political superiors, should the bill pass?

    Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman 1904

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