Definition of Earning

1. n. That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

Definition of Earning

1. Verb. (present participle of earn) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Earning

1. earn [v] - See also: earn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earning

earned run average
earned runs
earner
earners
earnest
earnest money
earnester
earnestest
earnestful
earnestly
earnestness
earnestnesses
earnests
earneth
earnful
earning (current term)
earning per share
earnings
earnings report
earnout
earnouts
earns
earnt
earpad
earpads
earphone
earphoned
earphones
earpick
earpicks

Literary usage of Earning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century by DIANE Publishing Company, William B. Johnstone, Arnold E. Packer (1993)
"When the workforce is analyzed according to weekly earnings rather than by occupation, the share of high-earning workers did decline during the late 1970s ..."

2. The Trust Problem by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Walter Ernest Clark (1917)
"The earning capacity may be due largely to the skill of the editor, ... Why, it is asked, should not the capitalization be made upon its earning capacity ..."

3. Poverty: A Study of Town Life by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1908)
"... CONDITION OF THE WAGE- earning CLASS IN YORK HAVING decided to make an inquiry into the economic and social condition of the wage-earning class in York, ..."

4. The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth by Henry Ward Beecher (1893)
"So tl necessity of earning a man's living is not a misfortune. ... Consider what earning one's livelihood implies; what thoug more and more, as competition ..."

5. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"Even in the matter of actual capital investment, there is likely to be some correspondence between cost and earning power. The actual cost of constructing a ..."

6. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"PER CENT OF ADULT BITUMINOUS COAL MINE WORKERS OF SELECTED RACES earning EACH SPECIFIED AMOUNT PER DAY, BY LOCALITY.' Comparable data on the earnings of ..."

7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1791)
"... him earning ia the clouds of Heaven, Matt. xxvi. 64, 65, was this, that it was a tradition among them that the Medias (hould fo come, and that therefore ..."

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