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earnings

[ ur-ningz ]
/ ˈɜr nɪŋz /
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noun

money earned; wages; profits.

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RELATED WORDS

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

Nearby words

earned surplus, earner, earnest, earnest money, earnestly, earnings, earnings per share, earnings related supplement, earom, earp, earp, wyatt

Origin of earnings

before 1050; Middle English erning, Old English earning, earnung merit, pay. See earn1, -ing1, -s3
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British Dictionary definitions for earnings

earnings

/ (ˈɜːnɪŋz) /

pl n

money or other payment earned
the profits of an enterprise
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for earnings

earnings

n.

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).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper