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earners

earners is the plural of earner.

Meaning of earner

Noun

earner (plural earners)

  1. One who earns money.
    • Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.1972 May 14, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27), Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist...
  2. (Australia, UK) A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.
    • Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.

Phrases with earners

Questions about earners

What is earners the plural of?
Earners is the plural of earner.

Words near earners in the dictionary

  1. earned run
  2. earned run average
  3. earned run averages
  4. earned runs
  5. earner
  6. earners
  7. earnest
  8. earnest money
  9. earnest moneys
  10. earnest-money
  11. earnest-moneys

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