earnings

[ur-ningz]

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noun

money earned; wages; profits.

Origin of earnings

before 1050; Middle English erning, Old English earning, earnung merit, pay. See earn¹, -ing¹, -s³

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Related Words for earnings

salary, return, revenue, profit, pay, gain, income, proceeds, balance, reward, lucre, stipend, groceries, emolument, gate, net, receipts, salt, wages, payoff

Examples from the Web for earnings

Contemporary Examples of earnings

And when support goes up, so do the earnings of the Zaitokukai—earnings that are poorly accounted for and go untaxed.
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September 26, 2014
They tend to attend worse schools, which lowers their future earnings potential.
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September 18, 2014
It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash.
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September 13, 2014
They are currently facing 18 months in jail after being found guilty of tax fraud on $1 billion in earnings.
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August 5, 2014
After all, Disney is a multinational corporation that saw $45 billion in earnings last year.
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July 15, 2014

Historical Examples of earnings

I was to give half my earnings and to do for Eileen exactly as I did for you.
Her Father's Daughter
Gene Stratton-Porter
The gross earnings have largely increased during the years 1891 and 1892.
The Railroad Question
William Larrabee
Where gross annual earnings, per mile, shall be $4,000 or more.
The Railroad Question
William Larrabee
He now also fell upon the children's earnings with greater avidity than ever.
The Fortune of the Rougons
Emile Zola
But all the same, mamma has a weakness for him, and lets him take all my earnings.
Fruitfulness
Emile Zola

British Dictionary definitions for earnings

earnings

pl n

money or other payment earned

the profits of an enterprise

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Word Origin and History for earnings

amount of money one makes (from labor or investment), 1732, from plural of verbal noun earning (Old English earnung "fact of deserving; what one deserves;" see earn).