earnings
ur ningz
- n the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- n something that remunerates
they saved a quarter of all their earnings - v earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- v acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- The annual spring flood of first-quarter earnings reports hit high-water mark last week.
- Stockholders sat down last week to look over the earnings reports for the first half of 1946.
- That said, a plumber's earnings vary widely depending on the region in which they work and whether a plumber owns a business that employs others.