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earnings Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the amount of money that someone is paid for working:
- Average earnings for skilled workers are rising.
- Sun Microsystems reported earnings that were slightly better than the market had been expecting.
1 the amount of money that you are paid for the work you do, or the profit that a company makes
2 a company's or industry's profits in a particular period:
- Earnings from record sales topped £5 million.
- lower/strong/record earnings It was one of the few companies that showed strong earnings.
- Sun Microsystems reported earnings that were slightly better than the market had been expecting.
- expected/forecast earnings
3 the money that a person makes for the work that they do:
- Family credit is reduced as earnings rise.
- They are suing each other for loss of earnings.
- weekly/monthly earnings

Having a big mortgage is a real drain on your earnings.
She predicts pretax earnings of over $13 m for the company this year.
Wages rose by 2.9% last year, but real earnings still fell by 1.3%.
The rise in the value of the dollar has depressed the company's earnings this year.
He got into trouble by lying to the tax office about his earnings.
They show that college graduates have a higher present value of earnings than high school graduates.
The type of earnings risk faced by the richest is also a potential explanation worth investigating.
In his setup, one generation of parents care about their children's future consumption, and there is regression to the mean between parents' and children's earnings.