wage-earner

基本解释

In less than a year, the wage-earner earned a million while Li already had millions of deposits.
未及一年，打工仔已腰缠百万，而李某则已有存款数百万矣。
For the million Spanish families who saw a wage-earner lose their job in 2008, Christmas was a lot grimmer.
2008年，西班牙数以百万计的家庭亲眼目睹了靠工资度日的人们下岗待业，圣诞节更是雪上加霜。
An average wage-earner in Zurich and New York can buy an iPod nano from an Apple store after nine hours of work.
调查称，在苏黎世和纽约，普通工薪族工作9小时就可在“苹果”专卖店买一个iPod nano播放器。

For example, if Japanese households held on to the single-male-wage-earner model for longer than US households then the aging of the Japanese workforce would not have affected the female Japanese labor force nearly as much.
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At the one processing sites, there were more than four times as many unassigned offers from self-employed taxpayers (those are typically more complicated than wage earner cases) and 37% of the offers were more than six months old.
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