earner
/ˈɝnɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.94 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.
Australian usage; British usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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"."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English earn Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English earner From earn + -er.
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage