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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A wage earner.

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Examples

  • The neglected wageworker, who made a bare-bones living by slopping out soupy servings to day tourists on the edge of a plaza that memorialized revolutions past, was she not also an inheritor of the revolutionary tradition?

    TO SERVE THE PEOPLE philip j cunningham 2009

  • The neglected wageworker, who made a bare-bones living by slopping out soupy servings to day tourists on the edge of a plaza that memorialized revolutions past, was she not also an inheritor of the revolutionary tradition?

    Archive 2009-05-16 philip j cunningham 2009

  • Whether wageworker or peasant, businessman or professional, intellectual or chief, no African was admitted to parliament, municipal councils, the army, civil service, mining and financial houses, or managerial and technical posts.

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 26 Ray Esther 1969

  • He replied to one of his critics with this statement of his position: "While I am President I wish the labor man to feel that he has the same right of access to me that the capitalist has; that the doors swing open as easily to the wageworker as to the head of a big corporation -- AND NO EASIER."

    Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland

  • Normally, the wageworker, the man of small means, and the average consumer, as well as the average producer, are all alike helped by making conditions such that the man of exceptional business ability receives an exceptional reward for his ability Something can be done by legislation to help the general prosperity; but no such help of

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Moreover, it is exactly as true of the farmer, as it is of the business man and the wageworker, that the ultimate success of the Nation of which he forms a part must be founded not alone on material prosperity but upon high moral, mental, and physical development.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • In every possible way we should help the wageworker who toils with his hands and who must (we hope in a constantly increasing measure) also toil with his brain.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • If the reduction in wages is due to natural causes, the loss of business being such that the burden should be, and is, equitably distributed, between capitalist and wageworker, the public should know it.

    Theodore Roosevelt and His Times Harold Howland

  • In the first place, they ought to teach the workingman, the laborer, the wageworker, that by demanding what is improper and impossible he plays into the hands of his foes.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • It should be one of our prime objects as a Nation, so far as feasible, constantly to work toward putting the mechanic, the wageworker who works with his hands, on a higher plane of efficiency and reward, so as to increase his effectiveness in the economic world, and the dignity, the remuneration, and the power of his position in the social world.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

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