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earnings
noun [plural] /ˈɜː.nɪŋz/
/ˈɝː-/ Definition
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B2 the amount of money that someone is paid for the work they do: Average earnings for skilled workers are rising.Earning money and money earned › a company's profits in a particular period: Sun Microsystems reported earnings that were slightly better than the market had been expecting.Investment and stock markets
(Definition of earnings noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- bank verb (MONEY)
- danger money noun
- double-dip verb
- draw verb (MONEY)
- earn verb
- easy money noun
- fundraising noun
- gravy train noun
- hourly adjective
- OTE noun
- paved with gold idiom
- pocket money noun (CHILD'S MONEY)
- professionally adverb
- remuneration noun
- scrape a living idiom
- severance noun
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