Synonyms for earnings


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ur-ningz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜr nɪŋz

Top 10 synonyms for earnings Other synonyms for the word earnings

Définition of earnings

Origin :
  • amount of money one makes (from labor or investment), 1732, from plural of verbal noun earning (Old English earnung "fact of deserving; what one deserves;" see earn).
  • noun money for work performed
Example sentences :
  • I was to give half my earnings and to do for Eileen exactly as I did for you.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • The gross earnings have largely increased during the years 1891 and 1892.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • Where gross annual earnings, per mile, shall be $4,000 or more.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • He now also fell upon the children's earnings with greater avidity than ever.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • But all the same, mamma has a weakness for him, and lets him take all my earnings.
  • Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
  • She didn't cost Laurent a penny, keeping herself out of her own earnings.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • The author of The Lances of Dawn was still looking at the statement of its earnings.
  • Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • All his earnings and all he could raise, he invested in the mine.
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang
  • He knew you then as something more than the recipient of his earnings.
  • Extract from : « St. Patrick's Eve » by Charles James Lever
  • To secure to the poor forsaken wife the right to her earnings?
  • Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

Antonyms for earnings

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