Word Meanings - BREADWINNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BREADWINNER)

• Laborer
• Workman
• workingman
• employe
• operative
• breadwinner
• hand

Related words: (words related to BREADWINNER)

• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• OPERATIVE
  Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. (more info) 1. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all
• LABORER
  One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• WORKMANLY
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• WORKMANLIKE
  Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• WORKINGMAN
  A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• OPERATIVELY
  In an operative manner.
• BREADWINNER
  The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• UNOPERATIVE
  Producing no effect; inoperative. South.
• INOPERATIVE
  Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.
• DISWORKMANSHIP
  Bad workmanship. Heywood.
• TUT-WORKMAN
  One who does tut-work. Tomlinson.
• COOPERATIVE
  Operating jointly to the same end. Coöperative society, a society established on the principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending
• DAY-LABORER
  One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.