Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Earnings |
EarningsNoun1. The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). 2. Something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "earnings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | The Census Bureau classifies earnings from longest job (or self-employment) and other employment earnings into three types: 1. Money wage or salary income is the total income people receive for work performed as an employee during the income year. This category includes wages, salary, armed forces pay, commissions, tips, piece-rate payments, and cash bonuses earned, before deductions are made for items such as taxes, bonds, pensions, and union dues. 2. Net income from nonfarm self-employment is the net money income (gross receipts minus expenses) from one's own business, professional enterprise, or partnership. Gross receipts include the value of all goods sold and services rendered. Expenses include items such as costs of goods purchased, rent, heat, power, depreciation charges, wages and salaries paid, and business taxes (not personal income taxes). In general, the Census Bureau considers inventory changes in determining net income from nonfarm self- employment; replies based on income tax returns or other official records do reflect inventory changes. However, when respondents do not report values of inventory changes, interviewers will accept net income figures exclusive of inventory changes. The Census Bureau does not include the value of saleable merchandise consumed by the proprietors of retail stores as part of net income.3. Net income from farm self-employment is the net money income (gross receipts minus operating expenses) from the operation of a farm by a person on their own account, as an owner, renter, or sharecropper. Gross receipts include the value of all products sold, payments from government farm programs, money received from the rental of farm equipment to others, rent received from farm property if payment is made based on a percent of crops produced, and incidental receipts from the sale of items such as wood, sand, and gravel. Operating expenses include items such as cost of feed, fertilizer, seed, and other farming supplies; cash wages paid to farmhands; depreciation charges; cash rent; interest on farm mortgages; farm building repairs; and farm taxes (not state and federal personal income taxes). The Census Bureau does not include the value of fuel, food, or other farm products used for family living as part of net income. In determining farm self-employment income, the Census Bureau considers inventory changes in determining net income only when they are accounted for in replies based on income tax returns or other official records which reflect inventory changes; otherwise, the Census Bureau does not take inventory changes into account. (references) |
| Earnings is defined as the algebraic sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. Earnings represent the amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc. Related term: Income. (references) | |
Economics | The income arising from the sale of services of labour. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | (1) net income. (2) anything that is earned as compensation for labor (salary, wages, tips, bonuses) or as compensation for the use of something of value (rent, interest, dividends and other returns on investments). (3) the profits of a business. (references) |
Labor | Remuneration (pay, wages) of a worker or group of workers for services performed during a specific period of time. The term invariably carries a defining word or a combination; e.g., straight-time average hourly earnings. Since a statistical concept is usually involved in the term and its variations, the producers and users of earnings data have an obligation to define them. In the absence of such definition, the following may serve as rough guides: * Hourly, daily, weekly, annual--Period of time to which earnings figures, as stated or computed, relate. The context in which annual earnings (sometimes weekly earnings) are used may indicate whether the reference includes earnings from one employer only or from all employment plus other sources of income; * average--usually the arithmetic mean; that is, total earnings (as defined) of a group of workers (as identified) divided by the number of workers in the group; * gross--usually total earnings, before any deductions (such as tax withholding) including, where applicable, overtime payments, shift differentials, production bonuses, cost-of-living allowances, commissions, etc.;* straight-time--usually gross earnings excluding overtime payments and (with variations at this point) shift differentials and other monetary payments (Also see. (references) |
Statistics | The total amount of remuneration received by a worker for a given period as compensation for work performed or services rendered, including bonuses, commissions, overtime pay etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EarningsSynonyms: lucre (n), net (n), net income (n), net profit (n), pay (n), profit (n), profits (n), remuneration (n), salary (n), wage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit; avails; income; (receipt); proceeds, produce, product; outcome, output; return, fruit, crop, harvest; second crop, aftermath; benefit; (good). |
Receipt | Noun: receipt, value received, money coming in; income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds; gross receipts, net profit; earnings; (gain); accepta, avails. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now to make sure we get the best government that money can buy, Congress has passed a new one hundred percent withholding of all wages and earnings. But at least twenty-three percent of that will be returned to you, the taxpaying citizen -- minus of course state surcharges, subsidies, handling taxes, and dealer's prep (The Wizard of Speed and Time; writing credit: Mike Jittlov) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figure out his year's earnings). California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars a year. They pay a standing rent. There are five children working; ages from seven to fourteen. The older children cultivating, the younger children hoeing and chopping. Eutaw, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-operator and built up his one hundred sixty acre farm on his own earnings. Pressure of depression and drought made it necessary for him to mortgage his farm. The farm is now owned hy a loa. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | These are non-profit firms that must reinvest all earnings. (references) | |
Leasing Companies are liable to pay tax on all their earnings. (references) | ||
This abbreviation stands for Capital, Assets, Management, Earnings and Liquidity. (references) | ||
Children | Ethiopia | There are a few credible reports that children are maimed or blinded by their "handlers" in order to raise their earnings from begging. (references) |
Greece | In most cases, their parents, faced with extreme financial difficulties in Albania, agreed to send their child to Greece in exchange for a small percentage of their child's monthly earnings. (references) | |
Saint Lucia | A broad legal framework exists for the protection of children through the Criminal Code, the Children and Young Persons Act, the Family Court Act, the Domestic Violence Act, and the Attachment of Earnings Act. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Peru | All work-related earnings of Catholic priests and bishops are exempt from income taxes. (references) |
Economic History | Zambia | Total export earnings were US$ 800 million. (references) |
Central African Republic | Timber accounts for about 16% of export earnings. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | Outdated laws mandate prisoners' earnings at $0.35 to $0.70 per year. (references) |
Minorities | Czech Republic | Estimated unemployment among Roma is 70 percent, with many unemployed Roma subsisting on government support or earnings from illegal activities. (references) |
Political Economy | Iran | Oil exports account for nearly 80 percent of foreign exchange earnings. (references) |
Trade | Burma | Import permits may be obtained by producing evidence of export earnings. (references) |
Poland | Polish companies may utilize zloty earnings to buy foreign currency to pay for imports. (references) | |
Indonesia | Improved export earnings have enabled Indonesia to have a positive current account balance. (references) | |
Travel | Panama | The applicant must prove his earnings will come from outside of Panama. (references) |
Korea | The American businessperson, as a foreigner, is generally exempt from the above societal classification system, though one should be prepared to answer questions that Koreans may regard as common to establish societal hierarchy but which foreigners may regard as personal, such as questions of age, marital status, and wage earnings. (references) | |
Women | Slovenia | On average women's earnings are 85 percent of those of men. (references) |
Worker Rights | Niger | The victims must use their earnings to reimburse the persons who brought them to the city. (references) |
China | They often are forced to pay charges for living expenses out of their meager earnings, as well. (references) | |
Gambia | Most citizens do not live on a single worker's earnings, but they share resources within extended families. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The many millions which this act proposes to bestow on the stockholders of the existing bank must come directly or indirectly out of the earnings of the American people. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | In addition, I recommended insurance benefits to replace part of the earnings lost through temporary sickness and permanent disability. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Corporations have greater after-tax earnings than ever in history. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Services have been an increasingly important source of export earnings for the United States, and the United States must assure continued and increased access to foreign markets. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We allowed taxes and inflation to rob us of our earnings and savings and watched the great industrial machine that had made us the most productive people on Earth slow down and the number of unemployed increase. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Earnings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.66% of the time. "Earnings" is used about 3,207 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.66% | 3,164 | 2,984 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.28% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,207 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "earnings": Accumulated earnings ♦ accumulated earnings tax ♦ business earnings ♦ capitalised earnings value ♦ core earnings ♦ distribution of earnings ♦ earnings basis ♦ earnings per share ♦ earnings report ♦ earnings surprises ♦ earnings yield ♦ export earnings ♦ fabulous earnings ♦ fully diluted earnings per share ♦ gross earnings ♦ gross earnings margin ♦ hourly earnings ♦ incidental earnings ♦ monthly earnings ♦ net earnings ♦ net earnings per share ♦ net spendable earnings ♦ piecework earnings ♦ pre tax earnings ♦ pro forma earnings ♦ retained earnings ♦ spendable earnings ♦ undistributed earnings ♦ year's end earnings. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "earnings": earnings-enhancing, earnings-linked, earnings-per-share, earnings-related. | |
Ending with "earnings": bonus-earnings, lower-earnings, non-earnings, price-earnings. | |
Containing "earnings": lower-earnings-related, price-earnings ratio, price-to-earnings ratio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "earnings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrogë (emolument, gainings, living wage, pay, salary, wage, wages), pagë (emolument, gainings, pay, prebend, salary, screw, stipend, wage), fitim (benefit, gain, gainings, income, makings, payoff, percentage, profit, return, salary, spoil, victory, wages). (various references) | |
Arabic | مال مكستب, الأجر المكسوب, أرباح. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заплата (emolument, pay, paycheck, remuneration, salary, screw, stipend, wage), приход (increment, proceeds, profit), печалба (catch, gain, income, increase, increment, lucre, plunder, plus, prize, profit, spoil, win, yield), доход (emolument, income, issue, profit, yield). (various references) | |
Chinese | "益 (profit), "入 (INCOME). (various references) | |
Czech | zisk (emolument, gain, lucre, profit, winning), výnos (decree, gain, increment, proceeds, produce, production, return, returns, take, use, yield), výdìlek (gainings, income), příjem (gains, income, receipt, reception, revenue, stipend, taking). (various references) | |
Danish | erhvervsindkomster (earned income, labor income, labour income), loen, fortjeneste (efficiency, profit), arbejdsindkomster (earned income, labor income, labour income). (various references) | |
Dutch | looninkomen (earned income, labor income, labour income), inkomen uit verrichte arbeid (earned income, labor income, labour income). (various references) | |
Finnish | työansio, tulot (income, proceeds, receipts, returns), raha-ansio, palkka (pay, payment, reward, salary, wage, wages), ansio (income, merit, qualification). (various references) | |
French | gains. (various references) | |
German | verdienst (benefit, contribution, credit, gain, income, makings, merit, meritoriousness, profit, service), einkünfte (comings, income, incomings, receipts, revenue). (various references) | |
Greek | αποδοχές (pay, remuneration, salary). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכר (fare, fee, pay, payment, profit, remuneration, reward, salary, wage), 'מול (bereft, offset, payment, recompense, repayment, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward, wage, weanling), רוחים (dividend, gainings, interest, profits, takings). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kereset (action at law, claim, income, lawsuit, legal action, living wage, makings, plaint, wages, work-income). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perolehan, pendapatan (acquision, emolument, income, output, product, solution, yeld). (various references) | |
Italian | guadagno (accession, account, acquisition, advantage, benefit, earning, gain, increment, proceeds, profit, reward), guadagni (gainings, makings, pickings). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 稼ぎ高 , 稼ぎ , 収益金 (proceeds), 収益 (proceeds, returns), 収益 (proceeds, returns), 所得 (income), 所得 (income), 儲け (profit), 儲 (be profitable, profit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうえきき" (proceeds), しゅうえき (divination, entering servitude, placed in commission, prison labor, proceeds, returns), しょとく (income), かせぎ か, かせぎ, もうけ (establishment, preparation, profit, provision). (various references) | |
Korean | 가"액. (various references) | |
Norwegian | inntekter. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earningsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salário (fee, makings, pay, salary, stipend, wage, wages), rendimentos do trabalho (compensation of employees, compensation of employees at current prices, compensation of employes, earned income, income from employment, labor income, labour income), proventos (income, pickings), ganhos (swag, winnings). (various references) | |
Romanian | salariu (hire, pay packet, salary, stipend, wage), câştig (advantage, bargain, benefit, boot, catch, draw, gain, godsend, hand, income, increment, lucre, penny, prize, proceeds, profit, return, revenue, share, use, velvet, windfall), agonisealã (acquisition, fortune, profit, riches, savings). (various references) | |
Russian | заработок (emolument, gainings, makings), заработанные деньги. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zarada (gainings, profit, return, salary), dohodak (income). (various references) | |
Spanish | ganancias (gainings, loot, pickings, proceeds, winnings). (various references) | |
Swedish | förtjänst (credit, desert, deserts, emolument, gain, gainings, merit, payoff, profit, taking, win), arbetsförtjänst. (various references) | |
Thai | กำไร, รายไ"้ (revenue). (various references) | |
Turkish | maaş (compensation, emolument, pay, salary, stipend, wage), kazanç (acquirement, acquisition, avails, benefit, capital, convenience, credit, gain, gainings, grist, income, increment, make, melon, proceeds, profit, receipt, revenues, spoil, takings, winnings, yield), gelir (drawings, gainings, income, proceeds, revenue, revenues, takings, yield), ücret (charge, dues, emolument, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, rate, remuneration, salary, stipend, terms, wage, wage rate, wages). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ysygra, teneзir (dragonfly), gazanз. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | надходження, заробіток (emolument, gainings, income, pay packet, price), прибуток (bacon, benefit, debtor, emolument, gainings, getting, income, increment, proceeds, profit). (various references) | |
Welsh | ennill (acquire, attain, best, earn, gain, profit, win). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quaesita, quaesitum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "earnings": learnings, nonearnings, yearnings. (additional references) | |
| |
"Earnings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darnings, earings, earnign, earnning, Erannis, learnings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "earnings" (pronounced er"ningz) |
| 5 | er" n i ng z | burnings, yearnings. |
| 4 | -n i ng z | beginnings, drownings, evenings, fastenings, happenings, innings, leanings, lightnings, linings, meanings, mornings, openings, poisonings, runnings, screenings, seasonings, underpinnings, warnings, winnings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, everlastings, facings, failings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, weddings, whitings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aginners, engrains, grannies. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aginner, earings, earning, engrain, erasing, gainers, ginners, grannie, insaner, insnare, nearing, reagins, regains, reginas, searing, seringa, snaring. | |
-2 letters: angers, arisen, arsine, earing, easing, ensign, gainer, ginner, grains, inaner, inanes, inners, insane, narine, ranges, rasing, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, sagier, sanger, saning, sering, sienna, signer, singer, sinner. | |
-3 letters: aegis, agers, airns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: angriness, answering, arginines, ensnaring, gannister, learnings, ranginess, ravenings, reasoning, yearnings. | |
+2 letters: argentines, astringent, coarsening, daringness, engravings, ensnarling, estranging, gannisters, gingersnap, graininess, grenadines, gynandries, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, hoarsening, ignorances, increasing, integrands, omniranges, organzines, parentings, reasonings, regnancies, resinating, resonating, sanderling, sauntering, serenading, sharpening, slandering, smartening, tangerines, transgenic, unswearing, wanderings. | |
+3 letters: anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, angrinesses, astringency, astringents, baserunning, brigandines, brigantines, carcinogens, darlingness, enravishing, fingernails, frangipanes, garnishment, generations, gingersnaps, glaringness, grandnieces, impregnants, interabangs, linearising, mislearning, nitrogenase, nonearnings, patternings, personating, pregnancies, ranginesses, reascending, reassigning, refastening, reinstating, reseasoning, resignation, restraining, sanderlings, squandering, straitening, strangering, transecting, trapnesting, ungarnished, unreasoning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
