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- verb Present participle of
underearn .
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Examples
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Here are five examples that may indicate you are underearning: 1. Failing to ask for a raise or raising your fees to keep up with the cost of living.
Carolyn Ziel: Are you underearning? Carolyn Ziel 2011
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A lot of people were issuing similar warnings back then, too - that if the Administration appears to ally itself with Summers, Geithner, and Wall Street instead of the jobless and underearning people on Main Street, there would be hell to pay.
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First we had to learn what underearning really is.
Carolyn Ziel: Are you underearning? Carolyn Ziel 2011
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According to Lisa, "underearning is the pattern of earning less money than you need, or than is beneficial, despite your desire to do otherwise."
Carolyn Ziel: Are you underearning? Carolyn Ziel 2011
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A lot of people were issuing similar warnings back then, too - that if the Administration appears to ally itself with Summers, Geithner, and Wall Street instead of the jobless and underearning people on Main Street, there would be hell to pay.
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However, if you are living below your potential and you want or desire more, then you're underearning.
Carolyn Ziel: Are you underearning? Carolyn Ziel 2011
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The minimum goal in UA, for many, is to command a wage that covers their expenses: "If I take a job for less than $44 an hour, I'm underearning," is the way one member defines it.
A Program for Poor-aholics Anne Kadet 2010
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I used to have all sorts of confusions about my relationship with money and it resulted in a whole lot of underearning justified often by me trying to be above it all.
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In this 240-page book, the best-selling author of "Secrets of Six-Figure Women" shares her own secrets to overcoming underearning.
Quick Read 2007
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Many women have a habit of blaming themselves for underearning—chastising themselves for making the wrong career choice or being too shy to insist on credit for the project that got a male coworker a promotion.
Getting Even Evelyn F. Murphy 2005
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