nine-to-fiver

noun

Definition of nine-to-fivernext
as in laborer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nine-to-fiver
  1. laborer
  2. workingman
  3. workman
  4. wage earner
  5. drudge
  6. jobber
  7. coworker
  8. colleague
Noun
  • The shipyards needed laborers, and the promise of good jobs drew tens of thousands—many of them Black workers from the South and East—to places like Richmond.
    April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In addition to Mar-a-Lago and the Bedminster golf course, Trump’s Virginia winery and his Palm Beach golf course also sought foreign laborers in 2024.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of laborer
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
Definition of workingman
Noun
  • Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In the Act One climax, one of the workmen, Polish poet Joe Pakulski (Devin Cortez), falls to his death, leaving behind his pregnant wife, an Indigenous woman named Rudy (also Kabeary) who has been working beside him on the high beams.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 July 2024
Definition of workman
Noun
  • That tax cut was to be paid for by raising the cap for individuals earning more than $250,000 annually and requiring more Social Security taxes to be paid by those wage earners.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
  • While certain state Pass-Through Entity Tax regimes may allow pass-through owners to decrease or avoid AMT tax, W-2 wage earners will be unable to avoid AMT applicability.
    Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of wage earner
Noun
  • Freed from drudge work, these workers should be empowered to focus on more creative tasks and problem-solving.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Finally, give the drone scouts the drudge work, such as tediously scouring a large area.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
Definition of drudge
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
Definition of jobber
Noun
  • His comments come after weeks of scrutiny from coworkers, lawmakers and former Pentagon officials alike.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Virgo Competition may arise with coworkers, inciting them to take credit for your ideas.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of coworker
Noun
  • Our hearts are with his family and his colleagues during this difficult time.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • That was a key finding for my colleagues and me in our new study, which was published in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
    Jonathan G. Hakun, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of colleague
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