Antonyms for earnings
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ur-ningz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɜr nɪŋz |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for earnings
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