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The polite word for money that cost you something money never admits to.
means Income you receive in exchange for work, effort, or investment — pay that's been earned rather than given.
from From Old English 'earnian,' meaning to deserve or merit through labor, itself traced to a Germanic root tied to harvest and reward — the old notion that what you gather is what you've worked the field for. The word has always carried that sense of exchange: you put something in, the world owes you something back.
- vs winning
- Earning implies labor; winning implies luck
- corporate plural
- Earnings reports move markets more than products do
- root cousin
- Related to earnest, as in sincere effort
- accounting twist
- You can earn money you have not been paid yet