"principal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tourism accounts directly or indirectly for more than half of GDP and is also the principal earner of foreign exchange in Antigua and Barbuda.
- The only problem was that it left the country's tourism industry, one of the principal earners of foreign revenue, in some disarray.
- 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.
- Household incomes where the principal earner is under 25 fell by 19 percent in the decade ending in 1988.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The marriage was not conventional: Jelka was, at first, the principal earner; there were no children; and Delius was not a faithful husband.
- Ten years earlier when she had been the okiya's principal earner, she probably could have accused me of anything she'd wanted.
- 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.
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