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earner

/ ˈɜːnə /

noun

  1. a person who earns money
  2. informal.
    an activity or thing that produces income, esp illicitly

    a nice little earner



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Thanks to the presence of blackface and KKK costumes, her offensive fete went viral and earner her instant infamy.

The biggest earner in any genre is Judge Judy Sheindlin who rakes in $47 million a year.

In this current generation of adults, we have seen a huge increase in two-earner family.

More than 36 percent have only one wage earner, and nearly 80 percent have no wage earners at all.

For a $50,000 earner, that meant paying $1,000 a year less in payroll taxes.

It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.

The handsome sister is the younger; she never, when she was a wage-earner, went through the streets alone.

The independent wage-earner found his hope of political recognition in allegiance to the political machines.

Mention the trouble if the man of the house is sick and out of work, and there is no other wage earner.

Where before he had been a subaltern not always even a wage-earner—now all in a moment he had been transformed into a high chief.

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