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wage-earning

 
Adjective wage-earning has 2 senses
  1. wage-earning, working-class - working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
    Antonym: white-collar (indirect, via blue-collar)
  2. propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
    Antonym: middle-class (indirect, via upper-class, lower-class)
    Antonym: upper-class (indirect, via lower-class, middle-class)
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