earnings

[ur-ningz]

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noun

money earned; wages; profits.

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Origin of earnings

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

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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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They tend to attend worse schools, which lowers their future earnings potential.
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It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash.
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They are currently facing 18 months in jail after being found guilty of tax fraud on $1 billion in earnings.
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After all, Disney is a multinational corporation that saw $45 billion in earnings last year.
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Let me know who is manipulating a stock, and to h—l with dividends and earnings.
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One-tenth of all the annual earnings of all the Mormons in the world flows to him.
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The man that takes his earnings, must be able to convince him that he has a perfect right to do so.
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All earnings are put aside and handed to the convict on his release when he is also provided with suitable employment.
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Finally Betty and her earnings were placed in a cab, and the man, holding her arm firmly, stepped in after her.
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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

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).

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