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earnings

earnings noun: wages, money earned, income.

Noun

earnings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Wages, money earned, income.
  2. (plural, plural-only) Business profits.
  3. (plural, plural-only) Gains on investments; returns.

earnings meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

earnings in Tamil

ஈட்டிய பொருள், ஊதியம், பொருளீட்டம், வருவாய், சம்பாத்தியம், சம்பாதனை

earnings in Marathi

मिळणारी कमाई

earnings in Bengali

উপার্জন, মাহিনা, উপার্জিত ধন, পাত্তনা, কামাই, লাভ

earnings in Telugu

earnings
గడన gaḍana
More languagesFewer languages
earnings in Malayalam
വരുമാനം varumānaṁ, സമ്പാദ്യം sampādyaṁ
earnings in Kannada
ಗಳಿಕೆ, ಗಳಿಕೆಗಳು
earnings in Gujarati
કમાણી

Examples of earnings in a sentence

  • He waffled on for much of the earnings call without addressing the fall in share price.
  • The recent rise in the market is due more to multiple expansion than any increase in earnings.
  • The company doubled their earnings per share over last quarter.

All 40 example sentences with earnings

Origin of earnings

From earning + -s.

Words formed from earnings

Phrases with earnings

Questions about earnings

What does earnings mean?
Earnings means wages, money earned, income.
What is earnings in Tamil?
Earnings in Tamil is ஈட்டிய பொருள், ஊதியம், பொருளீட்டம். See Earnings meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is earnings?
Earnings is a noun.

Words near earnings in the dictionary

  1. earning one's stripes
  2. earning one's wings
  3. earning out
  4. earning power
  5. earning powers
  6. earnings
  7. earnings beat
  8. earnings call
  9. earnings calls
  10. earnings miss
  11. earnings misses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: earnings (page history and authors); earnings (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); earnings (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); earnings (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గడన (Telugu) (page history and authors); earnings (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); earnings (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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