breadwinner
pronunciation
How to pronounce breadwinner in British English:
UK [ˈbredwɪnə(r)]
How to pronounce breadwinner in American English:
US [ˈbrɛdˌwɪnɚ]
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- Noun:
- one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents
Word Origin
- breadwinner (n.)
- also bread-winner, "one who supplies a living for others, especially a family," 1821, from the noun bread (probably in a literal sense) + winner, from win (v.) in its sense of "struggle for, work at." Attested slightly earlier (1818) in sense "skill or art by which one makes a living." Not too far removed from the image at the root of lord (n.).
Example
- 1. He had the belief that as a husband , he was now the breadwinner .
- 2. She never understood the pressure he felt being the primary breadwinner for the family , having all that responsibility on his head .
- 3. Will you expect to live along traditional lines : woman as homemaker and man as breadwinner ?
- 4. Women in the past have been content to let the man be the breadwinner and the head of the household .
- 5. They can work and use childminders ( parent minders too ? ) , And they can let their partner stay at home while they become the no 1 breadwinner an increasingly visible choice .