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Adjective wage-earning has 2 senses

wage-earning, working-class - working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries; "working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor"
Antonym: white-collar (indirect, via blue-collar)
propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar - of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
Antonym: middle-class (indirect, via upper-class, lower-class)
Antonym: upper-class (indirect, via lower-class, middle-class)