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say it: UR-ningz
earnings is a noun meaning "the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
something that remunerates
“wages were paid by check”
“he wasted his pay on drink”
“they saved a quarter of all their earnings”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for earnings come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.