What is another word for breadwinner?

Pronunciation: [bɹˈɛdwɪnə] (IPA)

The word "breadwinner" is often used to describe a person who provides financial support for their family. However, there are various synonyms for this word that can be used interchangeably. For instance, the word "provider" is commonly used to describe someone who earns a living and supports their family. Additionally, "earner" and "supporter" are also commonly used synonyms for "breadwinner". Other synonyms include "wage-earner", "provider/protector", and "guardian/protector". While each of these words has a slightly different connotation, they all refer to the same concept of someone who works to provide financial support for their family.

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Usage examples for Breadwinner

Such was her present ideal of wifely submission to husband in all matters that concerned his "career," but she let him plainly perceive that in saying this she was merely putting the responsibility of their lives wholly upon his shoulders, as he was the breadwinner.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
He had a new reason for being thankful that Squire Pope had not succeeded in depriving him of his violin, for this was likely to prove a breadwinner.
"The Young Musician or, Fighting His Way"
Horatio Alger
In the darkness, she did not see the quick gleam in his eyes, as he retorted: "I don't think many Cabinet Ministers have the luck to meet a breadwinner who is as attractive as she is clever."
"Winding Paths"
Gertrude Page

Famous quotes with Breadwinner

  • I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.
    Shirley Bassey
  • The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
    Dorothy Fields
  • While the new corporate culture afforded America's plutocrats an obscenely decadent existence, for middle-class Americans life became an increasingly-intolerable struggle- both at the office and at home, what little time was spent there. A study by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren showed that even though the average two-income middle-class family earns more than the single-breadwinner from a generation ago, given mortgage costs, car payments, taxes, health insurance, day-care bills, tuition costs, the need to move into an area with a good school district (due to the increasingly unbearable competition among kids), and so on, the average two-earner family has actually less discretionary income today than single-income families a generation ago.
    Elizabeth Warren
  • Whatever expenditure is sanctioned—even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish—the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay.... The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.
    Walter Bagehot

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