EARNINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earnings mean? 

• EARNINGS (noun)
  The noun EARNINGS has 2 senses:

1. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

2. something that remunerates

  Familiarity information: EARNINGS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARNINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits

Hypernyms ("earnings" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Meronyms (parts of "earnings"):

part; percentage; portion; share (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earnings"):

windfall profit (profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it)

cleanup; killing (a very large profit)

fast buck; quick buck (quick or easy earnings)

filthy lucre (shameful profit)

gross profit; gross profit margin; margin ((finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold)

markup (the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price)

accumulation ((finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation)

dividend (that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly)

earning per share (the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something that remunerates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage

Context example:

they saved a quarter of all their earnings

Hypernyms ("earnings" is a kind of...):

regular payment (a payment made at regular times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earnings"):

double time (a doubled wage (for working overtime))

take-home pay (what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc)

strike pay (money paid to strikers from union funds)

sick pay (wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave)

pay envelope; pay packet (wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner)

minimum wage (the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law)

merit pay (extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers))

living wage (a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably)

half-pay (reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time)

found (food and lodging provided in addition to money)

combat pay (extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat)

Holonyms ("earnings" is a part of...):

payroll; paysheet (a list of employees and their salaries)

Derivation:

earn (acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions)

 Context examples 

Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Economize as he would, the earnings from hack-work did not balance expenses.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have saved up my three years’ earnings and have it all safe in my pocket.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was, however, one area that likely frustrated you—your earnings.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You needn't feel wicked, my child! You had no winter things and got the simplest with your own hard earnings," said Mrs. March with a look that warmed Jo's heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A demographic parameter indicating the average amount of earnings made by a family in a particular population or/and during a particular period of time.

(Average Household Income, NCI Thesaurus)

A demographic parameter indicating the amount of earnings made by a family.

(Household Income, NCI Thesaurus)

Whatever a sailor purchases is taken from his subsequent earnings on the sealing grounds; for, as it is with the hunters so it is with the boat-pullers and steerers—in the place of wages they receive a lay, a rate of so much per skin for every skin captured in their particular boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had promised to love him for better or worse, and then she, his wife, had reproached him with his poverty, after spending his earnings recklessly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Meet with your financial adviser, go over your earnings, and see if any tweaks to your portfolio are necessary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)