Earner

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who earns money.

    "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."

  2. 2
    someone who earn wages in return for their labor wordnet
  3. 3
    A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money. Australia, British

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
wage earner

Example

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"One day I had a phone call from a friend. "There's a nice little earner, won't you come round?" so I went to his house."

Etymology

From earn + -er.

Related phrases

big earnerdual earnermiddle earnerwage earner

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