WordNet
wage-earning
adj. working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor" [syn: working-class]
of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw [syn: propertyless, working-class, blue-collar]
Usage examples of "wage-earning".
Because of this, I have been forced to get an actual wage-earning job in addition to my apparently strictly volunteer work as teen ambassador to pay my ever-mounting bill at Sullivan’s Art Supplies, where I have to buy my own Strathmore drawing pads and lead pencils, since my parents have decided I need to learn the value of a dollar and acquire a “work ethic.