earnings

American

[ur-ningz] / ˈɜr nɪŋz /

noun

money earned; wages; profits.

earnings British

/ ˈɜːnɪŋz /

plural noun

money or other payment earned
the profits of an enterprise

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Etymology

Origin of earnings

before 1050; Middle English erning, Old English earning, earnung merit, pay. See earn ¹, -ing ¹, -s ³

Example Sentences

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And while healthy advertising spending boosted its most recent earnings, there are concerns about its apparent inability to launch a cutting-edge AI to take on ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

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Carnival stock slide after the cruise operator cut its fiscal-year earnings guidance.

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“Predictions is rapidly developing into a massive, incremental opportunity, and we are moving with urgency,” CEO Jason Robins said in a letter to shareholders following the company’s fourth-quarter earnings last month.

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Meta, one of the largest companies in the world, would have to return to the earnings growth rates it last saw in the 2010s as a relatively young company in the emerging digital ad space.

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The war looks likely to drag on into April—at the very least—and into earnings season.

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