WINNINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winnings mean? 

• WINNINGS (noun)
  The noun WINNINGS has 1 sense:

1. something won (especially money)

  Familiarity information: WINNINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINNINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something won (especially money)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

profits; win; winnings

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

financial gain (the amount of monetary gain)

Antonym:

losings (something lost (especially money lost at gambling))

Derivation:

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

win (win something through one's efforts)

 Context examples 

Wolf Larsen was counting his winnings.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Keep in mind that this financial luck is based on earned income, not prize winnings, so if you gamble, don’t expect to win big.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There were some figures also upon a sheet of paper, with the names of some club friends opposite to them, from which it was conjectured that before his death he was endeavouring to make out his losses or winnings at cards.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will have the ability to bring in new business if you are in sales or self-employed. (Don’t buy lotto tickets or gamble, though—this house does not rule prize winnings.)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The house of other people’s money—where Saturn and Pluto currently reside, and that will welcome Jupiter on December 2—also rules a different type of money: taxes, student loans and scholarships, credit cards, bank loans, mortgages, inheritances, prize winnings, valuable gifts, and insurance payouts, as some examples.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Specifically, you will do well in one or more of these areas—by a payment of commission, royalty, cash advance, licensing fee, bonus, or such outside sources as an inheritance, insurance claim payment, scholarship or university financial aid, bank loan or line of credit, venture capital, credit card, mortgage or refinanced mortgage, divorce or court settlement, or prize winnings.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)