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earnings

[ur-ningz] Origin

earn·ings

[ur-ningz]
noun
money earned; wages; profits.

Origin:
before 1050; Middle English erning, Old English earning, earnung merit, pay. See earn, -ing1, -s3
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Earnings is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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earnings (ˈɜːnɪŋz)
 
pl n
1.  money or other payment earned
2.  the profits of an enterprise

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earnings
amount of money one makes (from labor or investment), 1732, from plural of verbal noun earning (see earn).
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