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earnestly |
earnestness |
earnful |
earning |
earning per share |
earnings
| earnings before interest taxes depreciation and am
| earnings report
| earphone
| earpick
| earpiece
HYPHEN
COUNT IN NET
WORDNET DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
earnings
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun earnings has 2 senses
- earnings(n = noun.possession) lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits - the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses); Array is a kind of income
- earnings(n = noun.possession) pay, remuneration, salary, wage - something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" has particulars: combat pay, double time, found, half-pay, living wage, merit pay, minimum wage, pay envelope, pay packet, sick pay, strike pay, take-home pay
has particulars: earning per share, windfall profit, cleanup, killing, fast buck, quick buck, filthy lucre, gross profit, gross profit margin, margin, markup, accumulation, dividend
has parts: part, percentage, portion, share
is a kind of regular payment
is a part of payroll, paysheet
Derived form verb earn2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
earnings, n.pl. money earned.
Idiom
earnings-related (of benefit, a pension, etc.) calculated on the basis of past or present income.
THESAURUS
earnings
accession, acquirement, acquisition, addition, attainment, avails, base pay, box office, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, coming by, commissions, compensation, credit, credits, dismissal wage, disposable income, dividend, dividends, dragging down, earned income, emolument, escalator clause, escalator plan, filthy lucre, financial remuneration, gain, gaining, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, getting, getting hold of, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, guaranteed annual wage, hire, hoard, income, intake, interest, killing, living wage, lucre, make, making, makings, minimum wage, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, obtainment, obtention, output, paper profits, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, portal-to-portal pay, proceeds, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, produce, profit, profits, purchasing power, rake-off, real wages, receipt, receipts, receivables, remuneration, return, returns, revenue, royalties, salary, securement, severance pay, sliding scale, stipend, store, take, take-home, take-home pay, take-in, takings, taxable income, total compensation, trover, unearned income, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wealth, winning, winnings, yieldROGET THESAURUS
earnings
Acquisition
N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.Receipt
N receipt, value received, money coming in, income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds, gross receipts, net profit, earnings, accepta, avails, rent, rent roll, rental, rentage, rack-rent, premium, bonus, sweepstakes, tontine, pension, annuity, jointure, alimony, palimony, pittance, emolument, receiving, received, profitable.
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