单词 | breadwinner |
释义 | breadwinner (bredwɪnəʳ ) also bread-winner Word forms: breadwinners countable noun The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things. I've always paid the bills and been the breadwinner. Collocations: main breadwinner Think of tech firms, of pharmaceutical companies, of households where the main breadwinner works in health consultancy. Times,Sunday Times And 40% say they are their family's main breadwinner. Times, Sunday Times By 1999, she had three, and was the main breadwinner. Times, Sunday Times The trial took more than a year, and hit us at a time when he was the main breadwinner. Times, Sunday Times He insists it was a childhood even though he was the family's main breadwinner. Times, Sunday Times If you are the primary breadwinner for your family, there are a lot of things you aren't going to be doing, and that's okay. Christianity Today His wife, a teacher, was the primary breadwinner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At fifteen, he had become his familys primary breadwinner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although still primary breadwinners, they had begun to lose their sense of masculine independence in a web of corporate bureaucracy. Christianity Today Family members who may have previously been the primary breadwinners in the country of origin may be unable to find gainful employment due to their undocumented status. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you are the sole breadwinner, try to ensure that your family would be looked after should anything happen to you. Times, Sunday Times Sociologists behind the research blame the pressure of being sole breadwinner. The Sun All two-earner families thus have to subsidize sole breadwinner families through the marriage bonus given to sole breadwinners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She became practically the sole breadwinner of her family during the 1940s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In many households they are now the equal, main or sole breadwinners? The Sun Translations: Chinese: 养家糊口的人 Japanese: 一家の稼ぎ手 |
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