Earner with dependents

Usage examples of breadwinner.

With a surfeit of respectable ladies and their daughters, left without a breadwinner by the war against Bonaparte, there was no shortage of governesses or companions.

If you are the major breadwinner, if your husband has more time to give to the kids, if you travel a lot--well, it may be better to let your husband keep the kids.

As the principal breadwinner in those early years, he was the one who made it possible for you to spend time on the business.

It requires a good deal of capital for two people to live as Mrs Bridgetower and her son lived, when there has been no breadwinner in the family for ten years.

Somehow, as an earner and breadwinner, doing his own work in the world, he was more like an equal with her.

Miriam, as chief breadwinner, handles the finances with an efficiency Saul could never match.

This process triggered lactation in the male, and it was the male who settled down for the requisite number of years to raise the young while the female, after giving birth, was the breadwinner of the family.

Sixty years ago, Margaret Mead told us, based on what is done in other cultures, that it wasn't innate for men to be decision-makers and breadwinners or for women to be subservient and raise children.

Conversely, being the breadwinner may be very hard but it is less stressful than being a spouse who needs to be a breadwinner but can't get a job.

He'd always circled like a vulture, waiting to foreclose on hapless widows and families whose breadwinners had been fired or become disabled.

You have been conditioned to think of yourselves merely as breadwinners with no higher purpose than to earn your fees and the means of your own existence.