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Profits from a venture
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earnings
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Word definitions for earnings in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earning \Earn"ing\, n.; pl. Earnings . That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. --Burke.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn: net income , net , net profit , lucre , profit , profits ] something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES export earnings/revenue (= the money a company or country makes from exports ) ▪ Oil and gas provide 40% of Norway’s export earnings. loss of earnings ▪ The court awarded Ms Dixon £7,000 for damages and loss of earnings ...
Usage examples of earnings.
You will tell people that I have gone to France to see Boulonnais, to let him know how his exhibition went and bring him his share of his earnings.
There were loan-outs, buybacks, reverse repurchase agreements for contracts based on projected earnings.
It was generally believed that Chon Look had been smart enough to turn the earnings from his old shop into this profitable business.
So things went on in light and in shade, in homekeeping and in travel, in debts and in earnings, but always in work of some kind or another, for eighteen years from the turning point of 1829.
When I first arrived, the proverbial babe-in-the-woods, there were plenty of savvy forest denizens happy to offer guidance in exchange for a share of my earnings.
State where cotton gins are held to be public utilities and their rates regulated, the granting of a license to a cooperative association distributing profits ratably to members and nonmembers does not deny other persons operating gins equal protection when there is nothing in the laws to forbid them to distribute their net earnings among their patrons.
It was the form of dismissal for the hardrock miners whose earnings he was wont to take, but Rimrock was not particular.
The chief obstacle to the match lay in the fact that his earnings only amounted to a paul a day, which was certainly an insufficient sum to support a wife on.
Ake asked, staring at a lavishly garbed Skinnerite, apparently none the worse for having to contribute one-tenth of his gross earnings to the Prophet of the One.
In addition, worldwide recession had been depressing hard-currency earnings of Algerian tourism and petroleum exports, which magnified the economic crisis and increased unemployment.
At seven years of age he robbed his sisters, beating Cecile every Saturday in order to tear her earnings from her.
As the most notorious prisoner in the state penal system, Joel, who chose not to donate all of his earnings, harbored no illusions about being granted clemency some day.
An' that's your buildin' trades in San Francisco, while the leaders are makin' trips to Europe on the earnings of the tenderloin--when they ain't coughing it up to the lawyers to get out of wearin' stripes.
All the earnings of each stall were put down to the chief butty, as contractor, and he divided the wages again, either in the public-house or in his own home.
She put her little earnings into a purse, and told me she liked to have some money of her own.