noun
Meaning 1
Wages, money earned, income.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
earnings
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
Business profits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Gains on investments; returns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: income
Narrower terms: earning per share, windfall profit, killing, cleanup, fast buck, quick buck, filthy lucre, gross profit, gross profit margin, margin, markup, accumulation, dividend
noun
Meaning 5
something that remunerates
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- wages were paid by check
- he wasted his pay on drink
- they saved a quarter of all their earnings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wage, pay, remuneration, salary
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: regular payment
Narrower terms: combat pay, double time, found, half-pay, living wage, merit pay, minimum wage, pay envelope, pay packet, sick pay, strike pay, take-home pay
History
Etymology
From earning + -s.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: շահույթ (šahuytʻ) — wages, money earned, income
- Armenian: վաստակ (vastak) — wages, money earned, income
- Azerbaijani: qazanc — wages, money earned, income
- Bulgarian: доходи (dohodi) — wages, money earned, income
- Bulgarian: приходи (prihodi) — wages, money earned, income
- Chinese Mandarin: 收益 (shōuyì) — wages, money earned, income
- Chinese Mandarin: 收入 (shōurù) — wages, money earned, income
- Chinese Mandarin: 所得 (suǒdé) — wages, money earned, income
- Czech: výdělek — wages, money earned, income
- Danish: indtjening — wages, money earned, income
- Finnish: ansiot — wages, money earned, income
- French: revenus — wages, money earned, income
- German: Einkommen — wages, money earned, income
- German: Verdienst — wages, money earned, income
- German: Lohn — wages, money earned, income
- Irish: saothrú — wages, money earned, income
- Italian: guadagno — wages, money earned, income
- Japanese: 収入 (shūnyū) — wages, money earned, income
- Japanese: 稼ぎ (kasegi) — wages, money earned, income
- Japanese: 所得 (shotoku) — wages, money earned, income
- Malayalam: വരുമാനം (varumānaṁ) — wages, money earned, income
- Malayalam: സമ്പാദ്യം (sampādyaṁ) — wages, money earned, income
- Norwegian Bokmål: inntjening — wages, money earned, income
- Polish: zarobki — wages, money earned, income
- Polish: dochody — wages, money earned, income
- Polish: zyski — wages, money earned, income
- Portuguese: renda — wages, money earned, income
- Russian: за́работок (zárabotok) — wages, money earned, income
- Russian: дохо́д (doxód) — wages, money earned, income
- Russian: при́быль (príbylʹ) — wages, money earned, income
- Scottish Gaelic: cosnadh — wages, money earned, income
- Scottish Gaelic: pàigh — wages, money earned, income
- Scottish Gaelic: tuarasdal — wages, money earned, income
- Slovene: prihodek — wages, money earned, income
- Slovene: dohodek — wages, money earned, income
- Slovene: dobiček — wages, money earned, income
- Spanish: ganancia — wages, money earned, income
- Spanish: devengo — wages, money earned, income
- Spanish: cobramiento — wages, money earned, income
- Bulgarian: доход (dohod) — gains on investments, returns
- Danish: profit — gains on investments, returns
- German: Ertrag — gains on investments, returns
- Polish: dochody — gains on investments, returns
- Polish: zyski — gains on investments, returns
- Spanish: cobramiento — gains on investments, returns
- Spanish: devengo — gains on investments, returns
- Spanish: ganancia — gains on investments, returns
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