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How to use earner in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Earner means one who earns money. Example: “Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.”

Examples of earner by meaning

nounOne who earns money.

  • Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism.1972 May 14, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works; 27), Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the...
  • A remaining downside with potentially big unintended consequences is the legislated proposal doesn’t yet adjust the spouse income test, excluding many couples where one earner loses their job and leading to a perverse and undesirable "benefit cliff".2020 March 24, Peter Whiteford, Bruce Bradbury, “Your guide to coronavirus payments for the extra million on welfare”, in The Conversation

nounA 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.
  • Substantial income from new video markets made Shaker Run New Zealand's top earner at Cannes, closely followed by The Quiet Earth.2015, Lindsay Shelton, Dancing with Hollywood The Inside Story of How New Zealand Movies Became World-famous, page 76

More sentences with earner

  • Wage earners that resemble nothing so much as former southern slaves.From the entry nothing
  • Sambaza is widely consumed fish species in Rwanda both by low-income earners and upper classes.2013 November 1, “Rwandans dig deeper into their pockets to eat dear fish”, in The EastAfrican, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2022. From the entry sambaza
  • Basil's main girls were big earners and, as such, he expected them to look the part.2008, Martina Cole, The Business: A compelling suspense thriller of danger and destruction, →ISBN. From the entry on the bash
  • To lure investors and talent, taxes on firms in strategic sectors and on high earners will be capped at 15%.2026 February 1, “China has launched a huge free-trade experiment. Will reforms on a big southern island kick-start changes elsewhere?”…. From the entry FTP
  • Child care workers in both the USA and UK are in the lowest tenth of all wage earners.1993, Amitai Etzioni, The parenting deficit. From the entry childcare
  • It’s a literary tribute album, in effect, on which reliable earners acknowledge the influence of a respectably semiobscure national treasure by covering his songs.2009 July 19, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in New York Times. From the entry semiobscure
  • In a brief and abashed Tory conference speech, Kwarteng admitted it had been a “tough day” – hours after rowing back on the tax cut for high earners.2022 October 3, Kwasi Kwarteng, quotee, “Tory MPs plot to avert welfare squeeze after humiliating U-turns”, in The Guardian. From the entry turbulence
  • Among the highest 10th of earners, about 75 percent reported eating fast food at least once in the period, compared with 81 percent for the poorest.2017 July 12, Jay L. Zagorsky, Patricia Smith, “No, poor people don’t eat the most fast food”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09…. From the entry 10th
  • Increasingly, it does not make a difference—economically, at least—whether the husband or wife is the primary wage earner, or whether either or both of them work.2013, Debora L. Spar, Wonder Women, page 114. From the entry make a difference
  • It is being bought by wage earners, by ThriftStamp owners, by Hooverizers, by every man who wants real, guaranteed value in a shoe which will cost him a reasonable price.1918, Boot and Shoe Recorder, page 18. From the entry Hooverizer

Meaning of earner

  1. noun One who earns money.
  2. noun A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.

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Questions about earner in a sentence

How do you use earner in a sentence?
Earner is used as a noun. For example: “Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.”
What is a short sentence with earner?
“Wage earners that resemble nothing so much as former southern slaves.”
What does earner mean?
Earner means one who earns money.

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