noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
male
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For example, if the male breadwinner is unemployed, more of the domestic tasks may fall to him.
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The most serious risk which faced them was that to their involuntarily parasitic women-folk - the unexpected death of the male breadwinner .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when it comes to earning an income, a large percentage still expects the father to be primary breadwinner .
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Its restaurant at the winery has become a $ 5 million annual breadwinner .
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Sure, her management team would be left without a breadwinner .
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There's another kind of breadwinner - women on their own with no regrets.
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Traditionally, of course, the man is the breadwinner who enhances his desirability by demonstrating his earning prowess.
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Two women, both family breadwinners, found the union of help in fighting for the right to be considered for promotion.
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Women became breadwinners while their husbands and sons went off to fight.