earningsnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈɜː.nɪŋz/us/ˈɝː.nɪŋz/B2 the amount of money that someone is paid for working:
Average earnings for skilled workers are rising.
a company's profits in a particular period:
Sun Microsystems reported earnings that were slightly better than the market had been expecting.
More examples
- Having a big mortgage is a real drain on your earnings.
- She predicts pretax earnings of over $13 m for the company this year.
- Wages rose by 2.9% last year, but real earnings still fell by 1.3%.
- The rise in the value of the dollar has depressed the company's earnings this year.
- He got into trouble by lying to the tax office about his earnings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- bread and butter
- bring sth in
- danger money
- draw
- earn
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- payroll
- pickings
- strike pay
- venal
See more results »