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earn·ings (ʉrniŋz)

plural noun

  1. wages, salary, or other recompense earned by working
  2. money made by an investment or an enterprise; profits

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earnings

n.

wages, profits, net proceeds, receipts; see income, pay 2, profit 2.


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