| 单词 | earnings |
| 释义 | earnings (once / 392 pages) n Earnings are the amount of money you make from doing a job. You'll be a lot more excited about babysitting when you learn your earnings will be more than generous. Most earnings come from work that you've done, although money you earn from an investment can also be called earnings. Any financial profit or gain you make go into the earnings category, since you earn that money, whether through work, luck, or intelligence. The Proto-Germanic root, *aznon, means "do harvest work." WORD FAMILYearning: earnings+/earn: earned, earner, earning, earns/earned: unearned/earner: earners USAGE EXAMPLESDalrymple’s budget proposed transferring earnings to the general fund but leaving the principal untouched. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Some investors consider the big-stock S&P 500 to be pricey, with the average stock selling for 17 times analysts' 2017 earnings per share estimates. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) “Volatility in earnings is a really big problem.” Salon(Dec 29, 2016) 1n something that remunerates they saved a quarter of all their earnings Syn|Hypo|Hyper pay, remuneration, salary, wage combat pay extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat double timea doubled wage (for working overtime) foundfood and lodging provided in addition to money half-payreduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time living wagea wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably merit payextra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers) minimum wagethe lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law pay envelope, pay packetwages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner sick paywages paid to an employee who is on sick leave strike paymoney paid to strikers from union funds take-home paywhat is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc regular payment a payment made at regular times 2n the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) Syn|Hypo|Hyper lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits earning per share the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock windfall profitprofit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it cleanup, killinga very large profit fast buck, quick buckquick or easy earnings, "they are traders out to make a fast buck" filthy lucreshameful profit gross profit, gross profit margin, margin(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold markupthe amount added to the cost to determine the asking price accumulation(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation dividendthat part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly fund, stock, storea supply of something available for future use backlog, reserve, stockpilesomething kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose stock dividenda dividend paid in stock rather than in cash extra dividenda dividend paid in addition to the regular dividend equalizing dividenda dividend paid to compensate shareholders for losses resulting from a change in the dividend schedule divvyshort for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society income the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time |
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