wage-earning

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Adj.	1.	wage-earning - working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"working-classblue-collar - of or designating manual industrial work or workers
	2.	wage-earning - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shawpropertyless, working-class, blue-collarlow-class, lower-class - occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society