Definition of "breadwinning" [breadwinning]

• The earning of a household's primary income. (noun)

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• "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."