nine-to-fiver

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Noun
  • The exploitation of enslaved laborers on cane plantations increased supply and decreased production costs.
    Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which compiled data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, also reported that in 2023, women comprised 4.3% of workers in construction and extraction occupations, which include construction laborers, carpenters and electricians.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Other categories, including workmen’s and unemployment compensation, ask for $12,044.39.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.
    Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There’s real love out there for his performance, and his journey from child star to behind-the-scenes jobber to indie heartthrob is the type of narrative that voters can get behind.
    Vulture, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Gosewich then left the business before its expansion to join Sherman’s Records chain and rack-jobber covering eastern Canada.
    Karen Bliss, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2019
Noun
  • Marie died in December 2017 at 94. 04 of 09 Morey Amsterdam as Buddy Sorrell After playing Rob Petrie's coworker, Buddy Sorrell, Morey Amsterdam worked on the writing team for Your Show of Shows.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • How do your efforts contribute to a positive work environment? Be intentional about offering support—this could mean mentoring a newer coworker or simply being available to help brainstorm solutions during meetings.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That was certainly the case for marine biologist Professor Rochelle Constantine and her colleagues at the University of Auckland, who did not expect to find an octopus riding a shark.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Our colleague Bo Li at the University of Wollongong used optical luminescence dating methods on the layers of earth that contained the artifacts.
    Ben Marwick, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
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