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{
"term": "earnings",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the money that you earn for the work that you do",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a rise in average earnings"
},
{
"text": "She is claiming compensation for loss of earnings."
},
{
"text": "Blue-collar workers saw their real earnings diminish."
},
{
"text": "He was jailed for six months in June for living off immoral earnings."
},
{
"text": "Her net earnings last year were $15 000."
},
{
"text": "Her win in Australia has taken her career earnings through the million-dollar barrier."
},
{
"text": "Levels of earnings are still rising."
},
{
"text": "People with a university education tend to have higher earnings than those with a basic education."
},
{
"text": "You must declare all earnings to the tax office."
}
],
"topics": ["Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "record", "strong"],
"… of earnings": ["level"],
"verb + earnings": ["have", "generate", "calculate"],
"earnings + noun": ["estimate", "forecast", "projection"],
"preposition": ["earnings from", "earnings of"],
"phrases": [
"ten times, twenty times, etc. earnings",
"growth in earnings",
"loss of earnings"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the profit that a company makes",
"labels": "(North American English)(British English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The company's earnings per share have fallen to 29p."
},
{
"text": "Whisky accounts for a large percentage of Scotland's export earnings."
},
{
"text": "An earnings shortfall might point to problems with our forecasting abilities."
},
{
"text": "Chile's earnings from exports rose by 2%."
},
{
"text": "The company reported earnings of $2.9 million."
},
{
"text": "The stock trades at about 40 times earnings."
},
{
"text": "long-term increases in corporate revenues and earnings"
},
{
"text": "the company's projected earnings for the next twelve months"
},
{
"text": "the second-quarter earnings announcement"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "record", "strong"],
"… of earnings": ["level"],
"verb + earnings": ["have", "generate", "calculate"],
"earnings + noun": ["estimate", "forecast", "projection"],
"preposition": ["earnings from", "earnings of"],
"phrases": [
"ten times, twenty times, etc. earnings",
"growth in earnings",
"loss of earnings"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɜːnɪŋz/",
"audio": "ea/earnings/earnings__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɜːrnɪŋz/",
"audio": "ea/earnings/earnings__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}