The earning of a household's primary income.(noun)
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Use "breadwinning" in a sentence
"Given the ease of importing twenty or more unskilled apprentices from the House of Refuge or a similar institution, it is not surprising that Burt doubted the ability of journeymen weavers to obtain breadwinning wages without regulating the labor pool."
"Feminist theorists note that there are two ways to integrate women into a society as equals to men: as citizen-workers (who perform the same tasks as men, namely breadwinning) or as citizen-mothers (who perform different tasks than men, namely parenting)."
"The rise of so-called breadwinning wives has led to a number of support groups for fathers."