wage-earning

  • (s) working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
    • working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor
    working-class,
  • (s) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
    • "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
    propertyless, working-class, blue-collar,

Synonyms

working-class propertyless blue-collar

Words of close approximity