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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1771 1. a means (as a tool or craft) of livelihood 2. a member of a family whose wages supply its livelihood • breadwinning noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person who earns the money to support a family.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also bread-winner(breadwinners) The breadwinner in a family is the person in it who earns the money that the family needs for essential things. I've always paid the bills and been the breadwinner. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

blue-collar worker, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman