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# earnings

«earnings» in Mova's school dictionary: **The money a person gets for working: wages or salary** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (earnings, plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (money) The money a person gets for working: wages or salary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#m1)

2) (money) The profit a business makes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#m2)

3) Money you get from any work, like pocket money for chores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In adult life and maths problems, earnings are money in: «His earnings are 20 dollars an hour; how much for 8 hours?» (multiply: 160 dollars). Business news talks of company earnings. Phrases: «weekly earnings», «total earnings», «earnings per hour», «average earnings».

### examples

- Mum's earnings went up when she got a new job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x1)
- My earnings from washing cars were 15 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x2)
- If you earn 6 dollars an hour, your earnings for 5 hours are 30 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x3)
- The company reported big earnings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x4)
- She saved half her earnings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x5)
- Taxes are taken from your earnings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x6)
- They were so poor that they could save nothing at all; all their earnings went in bare food, and when that was gone there was nothing left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/#x7)

### note

Always plural in this sense: «my earnings are», not «my earning is». Verb: earn (earned). In maths, total earnings = rate × time; earnings minus spending = savings.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «earnings» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/earnings/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.