Earnings


[ur-ningz] /ˈɜr nɪŋz/

noun
1.
money ; wages; profits.
/ˈɜːnɪŋz/
plural noun
1.
money or other payment earned
2.
the profits of an enterprise
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).

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