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Earner

noun

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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."

Etymology

From earn + -er.

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