Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who works for wages.
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- noun A
woman whoworks in exchange forpayment , especially one that does manual labour
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Examples
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She was a New Woman, that still unusual amalgamation of homemaker and workingwoman: days filled with job, volunteering and clubs, homemaking skills honed down to the bare minimum.
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She might be a workingwoman, a volunteer, a mom, or part of all of these.
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I suppose we should have quotas on how many kids a workingwoman can have.
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This may prove to be useful for the workingwoman who can pick up the beauty products as and when required from the beauty salon.
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ANUCHA BROWN SANDERS, PLAINTIFF: What I did here, I did for every workingwoman in America.
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We had noticed that Cecilia's indignation on account of the workingwoman of Germany was extreme if the woman was pretty.
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This, however, only added fuel to the flames, for Anna, in an emotional speech, "A Struggle for Life," told the tragic story of Hester Vaughn, a workingwoman who had been accused of murdering her illegitimate child.
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Besides, no plain, everyday workingwoman could enjoy herself in your car because her conscience wouldn't let her.
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And, because it was queer that a song should seem to be coming out of the ground, a costermonger stopped, and then a little boy, and then a workingwoman, and then a lady.
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If so, how will the workingwoman of England, already inferior economically to the ladies who are benefited by the Shackleton bill, [4] be able to work with their political superiors, should the bill pass?
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