Earner
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Earner is a noun meaning One who earns money.
Meaning
One who earns money.
More Meanings
- (British, Australia) A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.
Example Sentences
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.
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".
Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
Word Forms
- earners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include source, income, salaried, employee, achiever, support.
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