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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
winnings
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Scooping up his winnings, he went off to invest them at the blackjack table.
▪ She collected her winnings and put them into her bag.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they decided for reasons best known to themselves to invest some of their winnings in buying people like me.
▪ As with those who sell their winnings, players who take the option must settle for less than the advertised prize.
▪ But Bailey broke the record for winnings by a jockey, pulling in $ 16. 3 million in purses.
▪ In six months her winnings, which had saved the firm, would have degenerated into a mere loan.
▪ Just as the size of the winnings amazed her, so did the size of the losses terrify her.
▪ Reliable domestiques are the stars' most valued comrades - and by long tradition they share the stars' winnings.
▪ Sanchez collected the winnings, pushed half the roll into his shirt and gave the other half back.
▪ That easily trumped the 23 percent winnings turned in by the overall market.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
winnings

"things gained or won," late 14c., plural verbal noun from win (v.).

Wiktionary
winnings

n. (plural of winning English)

WordNet
winnings

n. something won (especially money) [syn: win, profits] [ant: losings]

Usage examples of "winnings".

Both Phaid's winnings and the proceeds from Streetlife's rip-offs had been spent on bribing his way out of a succession of firing squads.

She's been down at Mox's watching the gamblers who bet on the favourite pick up their winnings, and she's not very pleased about it.

Leaving Makri to gloat over her winnings, I depart in the direction of the nearest food vendor.

She doesn't have much money and she handed over all her winnings to the A.

And now I'm about to walk off with the largest pot of winnings ever seen in Twelve Seas.

It's true that my winnings at the chariot races will enable me to make it through the winter in more comfort than I otherwise might have.

If she can win one fight I might be up for some good winnings, which of course I'll share with you.

But as he sat, gigantic and impassive, at the odd round desk in his office, watching the flowing tape that recorded the winnings hi all the halls, sipping the dark Martian beer that never intoxicated him, no onlooker could have guessed his age within a score of years—or guessed anything at all that moved behind his face.

The fat yellow hands of Giles Habibula, handling the green certificates as if they had been incandescent metal, laid the stack of his winnings on the double-zero.

He had to play this game to the end and then walk away with his winnings as best he could.

He wondered how he was going to make his way up those stairs with his winnings in his hand.

Phaid put on his jacket, dropped his winnings and the rube's fuse tube into his bag and listened to the beat of the falling rain.

It had required all the charm Phaid could muster, the right answers to some searching questions and a large portion of his winnings before she finally agreed to carry him to the next major port.

All those times that he'd sat in a fancy restaurant, spending his winnings, chewing his way through a prime steak with all the trimmings, he'd never given a thought as to what was involved in bringing the meat to the table.

The wallet full of winnings was his passage as far away from it as possible.