| 词汇 | wage-earner |
| 释义 | wage earner noun[ C ] uk /ˈweɪdʒ ˌɜː.nər/ us /ˈweɪdʒ ˌɝː.nɚ/ a person who works at a job for money挣工资的人;挣钱的人 See also earner Employees & colleagues alum alumna alumnae alumni alumnus compatriot employee girl goonda hireling homeworker nominee non-managerial office politics office spouse operative oppo payroll peon workmate wage earner | American Dictionarywage earner noun[ C ] us/ˈweɪdʒ ˌɜr·nər/ a person who works at a job for money, esp. to support a family wage earner | Business Englishwage earner noun[ C ] WORKPLACEukus a person who earns money by working: For her, life as a wage earner began at 15. For low-income wage earners, rent in most U.S. cities is simply beyond reach. Examples of wage earnerwage earner After 1924, wageearner cases exceeded business cases in each year, and the gap widened as the rate of wageearner bankruptcy increased. Lawyers found a lucrative business in bankruptcy and retailers found wageearner bankruptcy an increasingly common problem. Creditors did not appear in court because there was nothing for them to gain by participating in wageearner cases. Families below the federal poverty line, or receiving government assistance or with an unemployed principal wageearner, are classified as experiencing economic disadvantage. In wageearner cases there were no assets for creditors to liquidate. While the recommendations to add wageearner workouts and business reorganization were implemented, the recommendations to move toward officialism were not. Wageearner cases were necessarily voluntary and by the mid 1920s represented the largest category of bankruptcy cases. Several made the transition from wageearner to independent businessman while at the same time expanding their links with the urban poor through the construction of ties of patronage. Whatever the other factors were, the one essential ingredient for the increase in wageearner bankruptcy was the easy discharge that the system of creditor control provided for wage earners. The wageearner bankruptcy rate was less than 10 per 100,000 persons from 1899 to 1923, but reached 17 per 100,000 in 1928, and 21 per 100,000 in 1929. They recommended that corporate reorganization, which had been carried out by means of equitable receivership, be incorporated into bankruptcy law and that wageearner amortization plans be incorporated as well. Any increase in wages is taxed even further, and this adds to the scale of any taxes which the wageearner already has to pay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A quarter of households in my constituency are without a wageearner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The present situation, where one in five non-pensioner families have no wageearner in the household, cannot continue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The minimum income guarantee means that families with one wageearner will be able to earn slightly more than £10,000 before they have to pay tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of wage earner These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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