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breadwinner

'bred.winә4 senses · 235 ms
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noun/ˈbɹɛdˌwɪnɚ/
  1. 1

    The primary income-earner in a household.

    • More significantly, as women flooded into the workforce and divorce rates climbed, the model of a breadwinner father and a stay-at-home mother disintegrated.

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