wage slave

Definitions

1. Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
2. Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“The catch⟳ is that you have⟳ to be invested in order⟳ to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just don't have⟳ the cash.”

“Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck.”

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