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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural Salary or wages.
  • noun plural Business profits.
  • noun plural Gains from investments.

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  • noun wages, money earned, income
  • noun finance business profits
  • noun finance gains on investments; returns

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
  • noun something that remunerates

Etymologies

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From earn

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