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  • noun Plural form of breadwinner.

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Examples

  • When we pledge to cover rent, food or insurance, we free up single breadwinners from the unimaginable anxiety of having to cope with the medical, emotional, physical and financial catastrophe that has suddenly befallen them.

    Valerie Sobel: Real Talk About a "Silent Crisis" Valerie Sobel 2010

  • When we pledge to cover rent, food or insurance, we free up single breadwinners from the unimaginable anxiety of having to cope with the medical, emotional, physical and financial catastrophe that has suddenly befallen them.

    Valerie Sobel: Real Talk About a "Silent Crisis" Valerie Sobel 2010

  • When we pledge to cover rent, food or insurance, we free up single breadwinners from the unimaginable anxiety of having to cope with the medical, emotional, physical and financial catastrophe that has suddenly befallen them.

    Valerie Sobel: Real Talk About a "Silent Crisis" Valerie Sobel 2010

  • An increasing number of young women like myself are the primary breadwinners, which is no problem, except for the fact that we end up working full time, doing most of the housework, kin work, consumption work, and care work.

    Is this the New Patriarchy or Economic Restructuring? 2006

  • ILO also noted that women are perceived as caregivers while men are the breadwinners, which is why companies will rather pay women lower wages and fewer benefits as they are perceived as secondary income earners.

    IPS Inter Press Service 2009

  • I imagine it will be difficult for these women, who are apparently the "breadwinners" of their families, to navigate what is a secular industry, at least here in the US.

    Ultra-orthodox Israeli Women Earn Biotechnology Degrees Peggy 2008

  • I imagine it will be difficult for these women, who are apparently the "breadwinners" of their families, to navigate what is a secular industry, at least here in the US.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Peggy 2008

  • (This will certainly be an improvement over the circumstances many housewives, for example, currently endure-in which they do labor without economic compensation and thus become dependent on their, usually, male "breadwinners").

    Family 2009

  • The remainder of the "breadwinners" were engaged in trade and transportation, and in professional, personal, and public service.

    Community Civics and Rural Life Arthur William Dunn 1897

  • Fourteen years later, and the "breadwinners" who are supposedly in their prime have seen an almost 10% drop in employment.

    FXstreet.com John@FrontLineThoughts.com (Millennium Wave Invest 2010

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