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EARNER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does earner mean?
• EARNER (noun)
The noun EARNER has 1 sense:
1. someone who earn wages in return for their labor
Familiarity information: EARNER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who earn wages in return for their labor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
earner; wage earner
Hypernyms ("earner" is a kind of...):
jobholder (an employee who holds a regular job)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earner"):
breadwinner (one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents)
double dipper (someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension))
garnishee (a wage earner who is served with a garnishment)
Derivation:
earn (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Context examples
Martin Eden, I am afraid, will never be a money-earner.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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