earnerearn‧er /ˈɜːnə $ ˈɜːrnər/ noun [countable] 
Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner. He is the only wage earner in the family.2a business or activity which makes a profit: the country’s biggest export earner3a nice little earner British English informal something that earns you a lot of money
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.
- Breadwinner wives who are the couple's sole earners are a rarity, wives are typically joint but secondary earners.
- In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.
- Minimum wage earners, Kerry said, make about $ 8, 500 in a year.
- They have always offered special deals to attract students because they know that they are tomorrow's higher earners.
- They were contributors to a family wage rather than independent earners, but they were not members of a family unit of production.
WORD SETS
absenteeism, nounarticled clerk, black economy, nounbloodletting, nounblue-collar, adjectivebook-keeper, nounboss, nounbusiness agent, career path, nouncareer structure, nounCFO, Chartered Financial Consultant, nounCIO, co-manager, nouncommercial agent, company car, nouncompany doctor, company officer, competence, nouncompliance officer, co-worker, nouncreative director, curriculum vitae, nounCV, noundeputy chairman, deskill, verbdismiss, verbdowngrade, verbdownsize, verbearn, verbearner, nounemploy, verbemployable, adjectiveemployee, nounemployer, nounemployment agency, nounengage, verbenrolled agent, escrow agent, executive chairman, filing clerk, fill-in, nounfull-time, adjectiveheadhunter, nounhealth and safety, nounhuman resources, nounjob application, job centre, nounjobless, adjectivelabour exchange, nounledger clerk, moonlight, verbnatural wastage, nounnepotism, nounnetworking, nounnine to five, adverbnumber-cruncher, nounoccupational, adjectiveoff, adverboff-duty, adjectiveoperative, nounoutwork, nounoverseer, nounoverstaffed, adjectivepenalty clause, nounpension fund, nounpension plan, nounpersonnel, nounpiecework, nounpositive discrimination, nounpost, nounpreferment, nounproject engineer, qualification, nounqualify, verbquit, verbrecommendation, nounrecruit, verbredeploy, verbredundancy, nounredundant, adjectivereferee, nounreference, nounreinstate, verbresearch manager, resign, verbresignation, nounresume, nounretired, adjectiveretiree, nounretirement, nounself-employed, adjectivesharecropper, nounshift, nounskilled, adjectivetechnical analyst, testimonial, nountime and motion study, nountrainee, nountransfer agent, underemployed, adjectiveundermanned, adjectiveunderstaffed, adjectiveunemployable, adjectiveunemployed, adjectiveunemployment, noununemployment benefit, noununskilled, adjectivevacancy, nounvacant, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworkday, nounwork experience, nounworkforce, nounworking papers, nounworkweek, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner. He is the only wage earner in the family.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner. He is the only wage earner in the family.· Prices, however, reflected these origins and such goods were beyond the reach of average income earners.· For an average earner, that will be 16 years of collecting a monthly check worth about $ 4, 247.· National insurance contributions now have a ceiling: higher earners pay no more than average earners. 3.
· It is now a major international business and one of Britain's biggest yen earners.· Fast food items and fountain beverage sales are big earners.· The coffee industry, until tourism's rise the country's biggest earner, is in semi-collapse.· Goldman, Sachs & Co., thanks to its prowess in underwriting stocks, was the biggest fee earner last year.· It proved one of the big money earners for the year.· Milk traffic was a big revenue earner and continued to be until around 1950.· The company reporting cycle means that our league of big earners will be changing throughout the year.· In the past two years, tourism, the country's single biggest earner, has revived.
· The highest earners have the most confidence in themselves, while those currently without a steady relationship are relatively lacking in confidence.· Married men are the only ones in the population who in general tend to reach the high echelons of earners.· Firstly, of course, because it only affects high earners, i.e. those earning more than £75,000 a year.· But the highest earner in 1995 was the Eagles with $ 63 million, according to Pollstar.· They have always offered special deals to attract students because they know that they are tomorrow's higher earners.· Husbands are usually higher earners than their wives and their jobs or carers take precedence over those of women.· In many instances, such arrangements would only be within the means of high earners.· They simply appeared to be defending high earners.
· That would be a nice little earner for us.· Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.· A very nice little earner for the buyer!· It was a good little earner, it paid the grocery bills for the week - his own, anyway.· Doc on a night little earner!· With an eye for a nice little earner, Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins.· It has become, let's face it, a nice little earner.· However worthy his motives, the good doctor is on a nice little earner.
· Those who were in the lowest 10% of earners paid fifteen percent.· Provide generous exemptions that help lower earners.· Income tax is a progressive tax because higher earners pay a higher proportion of their income in this tax than lower earners.· Federal subsidies can offer rental assistance, convertible to a mortgage payment, to low income earners.· We have reduced the burden of National Insurance on low earners.· Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.
· Male speaker My wife lost her job; she was the main earner and basically from then on it was downward slide.· The main foreign-exchange earner is, or has been, tourism.· Ecuadoreans worry that the oil industry, their main foreign-exchange earner, is vulnerable to further violence.
· That would be a nice little earner for us.· Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.· A very nice little earner for the buyer!· With an eye for a nice little earner, Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins.· It has become, let's face it, a nice little earner.· However worthy his motives, the good doctor is on a nice little earner.· Bethlehem will always be a nice little earner.
· They will hit the top earner, the energy-guzzler, the expense account holder, harder than anyone.
NOUN· Other export earners, such as coffee and timber, remained stagnant, while imports continued to rise.· Most factories and other export earners were largely untouched by the floods.
· Macleod was attacked by both liberals and conservatives in the Legco for failing to provide sufficient tax concessions to middle income earners.· The number of homes sold to median-to-high income earners rose while neighbourhood representatives expressed concern over the concentration of substandard property.· Federal subsidies can offer rental assistance, convertible to a mortgage payment, to low income earners.· Second, Michael Portillo's tax cuts, carefully aimed at middle income earners, will appeal on the doorstep.· Trafalgar House's Sir Eric Parker says the tax squeeze on middle income earners could hit house prices.· Prices, however, reflected these origins and such goods were beyond the reach of average income earners.· For example, cheap mortgages supplied by employers are one important way in which higher income earners maintain real higher standards of living.
· Milk traffic was a big revenue earner and continued to be until around 1950.· Traditionally the major revenue earner, it was adversely affected by difficult trading conditions, particularly in the retail sector.· During the coming decade output from the Statfjord, Frigg and Ekofisk fields will decline and replacement revenue earners are therefore vital.· Instead he puts great faith in the traditional revenue earners of sponsorship and perimeter and programme advertising.
· Many wage earners were indeed better off than ever before, and after 1922 the economy was free from inflation.· In this case, inaction is bad news for wage earners.· In Leicestershire only 22 percent of taxpayers overall were classed as wage earners, compared with 37 percent in Rutland next door.· A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.· As wage earners themselves, they saw the morality of equal pay.· Even in households where wage earners have some graduate education, incomes have declined 1 percent since 1989.· He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they hadn't made any payment for 17 months.· Minimum wage earners, Kerry said, make about $ 8, 500 in a year.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- Bethlehem will always be a nice little earner.
- However worthy his motives, the good doctor is on a nice little earner.
- It has become, let's face it, a nice little earner.
- Some of the nurses found it a nice little earner on top of their poor weekly pay.
- That would be a nice little earner for us.
- With an eye for a nice little earner, Del Trotter dictated his letter of application to chief sports writer Roy Collins.
WORD FAMILYnounearnerearningsadjectiveearned ≠ unearnedverbearn
1someone who earns money for the job that they dohigh/low/average earner Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner. He is the only wage earner in the family.2a business or activity which makes a profit: the country’s biggest export earner3a nice little earner British English informal something that earns you a lot of money