Meaning

2 senses
  1. One who earns money.

  2. (Australia, UK)A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.

    Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.

More definitions
  • someone who earn wages in return for their labor

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Do minimum wage earners pay taxes?

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  2. The purchasing power of low-wage earners will continue to decline, if I understand correctly.

    deDie Kaufkraft von Geringverdienern wird sich, wenn ich recht verstehe, weiter verringern.

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Forms

plural: earners
Singularearner
Pluralearners

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who earn wages in return for their labor:wage earner

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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