Definition of "wage-worker" [wage-worker]

• One who works for wages. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The wage-worker sells his labour-power to the owner of land, factories and instruments of labour."
• "A careful survey of all the wage-literature published shows that the wage-worker who gets $1500 is an extraordinary, a unique, exception. '"
• "Will they ever find one as long as the wage-worker carries in his bosom a rankling sense of injury done him?"