principal earner

Loss of income suffered by a family whose principal earner dies in an accident.

Ten years earlier when she had been the okiya's principal earner, she probably could have accused me of anything she'd wanted.

The only problem was that it left the country's tourism industry, one of the principal earners of foreign revenue, in some disarray.

Two-thirds of the 10.1 million directly affected workers are over age 20, often a family's principal earners, while one-third are teenagers.

The marriage was not conventional: Jelka was, at first, the principal earner; there were no children; and Delius was not a faithful husband.

Tourism accounts directly or indirectly for more than half of GDP and is also the principal earner of foreign exchange in Antigua and Barbuda.

By contrast, in the early 1970's most households had one adult (usually the wife) still at home, available to take a job and supplement family income if the principal earner's wages fell short.

Once the principal earner of the country's economy, the jute industry has suffered a decline in recent years due to low prices on the international market, leading to many jute plants shutting down.

Earnings are augmented by allowances, such as allowances for those living outside their own country, those who are the principal earner in their household, those with children in full-time education, and those who are moving home.

A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research organization in Washington, reported that from 1979 to 1988, the incomes of households whose principal earner was under 25 years old fell 19 percent in terms of the food, housing or clothing they could buy.

It was, in fact, to be the last year that men like Derek would believe such a thing, because within a very short time virtually every coalmine in Britain would be closed, the men would be out of work and the women would become the principal earners in the home.