wage-earning

Questions about wage-earning

What does wage-earning mean?

wage-earning means "working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wage-earning?

wage-earning has 4 syllables: wa-ge--ear-ning. The stress falls on "ge-".

What is another word for wage-earning?

Close synonyms include working-class, propertyless, working-class, blue-collar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wage-earning a common word?

wage-earning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.