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Definition of Earners
1. earner [n] - See also: earner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earners
Literary usage of Earners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1913)
"The greatest concentration of the large establishments, those having more than
100 wage earners, however, irrespective of other considerations, ..."
2. Report by Industrial Commission of Ohio, Dept. of Investigation and Statistics (1915)
"Less than $7 per week was the rate of wages for — 40.5 per cent of the adult
female wage earners. 14.5 per cent of the adult female bookkeepers, ..."
3. Income: An Examination of the Returns for Services Rendered and from by Scott Nearing (1915)
"Ot TOTAL1 Cent. Total Estab- Per No. of Avg. No. Establish- of Wage- Establishments
Employing ments earners of lish- Wage- ments earners Total ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"They encouraged the wage-earners to form cooperative associations, ... In that
the wage-earners received a compensation sufficient to provide merely a bare ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"Nine establishments were engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel in 1900,
the industry second in rank, with 2138 wage-earners, and products valued at ..."
6. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Wage earners and farmers and tillers of the soil are excepted and no one can be
... Farmers and wage earners constitute a large majority of the people. ..."
7. Conditions of Labor in American Industries: A Summarization of the Results by William Jett Lauck, Edgar Sydenstricker (1917)
"A definite stimulus to the collection of facts as to the causes of ill health
among wage-earners is being given, and as the conditions are laid bare new ..."
8. Report by New Hampshire Bureau of Labor, Montana (1895)
"In collecting individual reports from Wage earners in 1893, after the 38 special
... This year, after the special inquiries on wage earners' schedules, ..."
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