nine-to-fiver

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Noun
  • Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The minimum wage standards required of firms receiving CHIPS funding, for example, could have been applied to all categories of workers, not just to laborers and mechanics.
    Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The incident caught the world's attention as Japanese workmen repaired the road within a matter of days.
    Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Work was nearing completion on the Baptist church as workmen posed atop the steeple still under construction.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
    Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • By August 2022, lower wage earners were averaging 7% yearly pay increases compared to 4.5% for the higher earners, the Atlanta Fed data shows.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.
    Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021
Noun
  • Now her coworker is out, probably thanks to Whoopi.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • And scientists are just people that are your neighbors and friends and coworkers.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Shultz and her colleagues were in the process of developing these methods well before January’s fires broke out.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The blockchain idea is being pushed, a HUD official told colleagues, by Irving Dennis.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Nine-to-fiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine-to-fiver. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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