Results for earnings
Definitions of earnings:
part of speech: noun plural
What one has earned: money saved.
part of speech: noun plural
part of speech: noun plural
Money, or other compensation received for services.
Usage examples for earnings:
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Whose earnings or income is so small.
"The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown -
In the matter of earnings etc.
"Commercialized Prostitution in New York City", George Jackson Kneeland -
It is this, you see, which keeps me here, shoulder to shoulder with these men whom I like just as little perhaps as yourself; and it was because the soldiers came upon us just as I was beginning to lay up a little from my earnings that made me desperate.
"Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia", William Gilmore Simms -
All three have lived on the poor old peddler's earnings all their lives, though not one of the three would be willing to keep the old man's house for him.
"The High School Boys' Training Hike", H. Irving Hancock