wage-earning
       adj 1: working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual)
              salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as
              well as industrial labor" [syn: working-class]
       2: 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]