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breadwinner

[ US /ˈbɹɛdˌwɪnɝ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈɛdwɪnɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents

How To Use breadwinner In A Sentence

  • Traditionally, we have based our support for families around the male breadwinner model.
  • He was the main breadwinner, after all, the man with the important international career. YELLOW BIRD
  • Loco Focos claimed, as skilled men and household breadwinners, that only a few years earlier, "an expert artizan could earn the price of a barrel and a half to two barrels of flour per week," but currently skilled artisans could not use their craft-standing to provide for their families. Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
  • Aadhar is the story of a young girl - Aishwarya Narkar who takes upon herself the responsibility of being the sole breadwinner for her family which includes an unemployed brother, a mentally-impaired brother, a sister who wants to complete her education and a father who has lost his hand in an industrial accident. WN.com - Articles related to Murli Deora, Ashok Chavan visit CPCL desalination plant
  • Marital instability, a growing number of female breadwinners, an increase in spinsterdom and domestic conflicts engendered by the humiliations and subservience of most men's work experience, influenced women to be more socially assertive! SPEECH BY MR C MABENA: WOMEN CELEBRATING THE DECADE OF FREEDOM ON THE PATH TO TOTAL EMANCIPATION
  • Taking on a mortgage and a child when the remaining breadwinner is likely to be retrenched at any moment is a large risk.
  • Some commentators still blamed working men's improvidence for forcing their wives out to work, but social investigators increasingly documented the fact that most men simply could not earn a breadwinner wage.
  • The second mistake is insuring the family's breadwinner and forgetting to insure a non-working partner, such as a housewife or house husband.
  • When the baby was born, I became the sole breadwinner.
  • Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the straitjacket.
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