单词 | bread earner |
释义 | > as lemmasbread earner bread earner n. a person whose income is used to provide bread or food for his or her family; (also more generally) a person who earns an income; that which provides a source of income; a means of earning a living; = breadwinner n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > one earning a living winner1352 providerc1485 bread earner1602 breadwinner1783 bread artist1827 daily-breader1872 1602 A. Copley Another Let. to Dis-iesuited Kinseman 30 Thou being much part of all these, and but a lay mechanical Gana-pan which is a Spanish Epithet..and in English an earne-bread or bread-earner. 1802 R. L. Edgeworth & M. Edgeworth Ess. Irish Bulls. xx. 136 What our hero dignifies with the name of his bread-earner, is the knife. 1906 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 25 May 6/2 At the age of twelve she is a bread-earner, getting some seven or ten farthings a day. 2016 N. Vernardakis Innovation & Technol. 169 In this complex..television is the main bread earner as it provides the main source of income for cinema besides box office returns. < as lemmas |
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