earnings : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: earnings	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earnings n the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) Synonym(s): net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" Synonym(s): wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Earning \Earn"ing\, n.; pl. {Earnings}. That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. --Burke.