earning Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
    earn; bring in; clear; pull in; take in; gain; realise; realize; make.
    • How much do you make a month in your new job?
    • She earns a lot in her new job
    • this merger brought in lots of money
    • He clears $5,000 each month
  2. verb acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
    earn; garner.

WordNet


Earn"ing noun
Wordforms
plural Earnings
Definitions
  1. That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.
    As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

Webster 1913