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Earnings

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netnounRemaining after expenses or deductions.
lucrenounMoney, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
remunerationnounA payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
wagenoun(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
salarynounA fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
profitsnounsomething won (especially money)
net incomenounIncome after tax.
net profitnoun(finance) The gross revenue minus all expenses.
payverb(ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
profitnoun(accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.

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remunerationnounA payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
salarynounA fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
wagenoun(often in plural) An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.
net incomenounIncome after tax.
net profitnoun(finance) The gross revenue minus all expenses.
paynounMoney given in return for work; salary or wages.
profitnoun(accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
lucrenounMoney, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
netnounThe amount remaining after expenses or other kinds of deductions are subtracted.
profitsnounsomething won (especially money)
wagesnounone's total income for a time period
incomenounMoney one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
revenuenounThe total income received from a given source.
payrollnounA list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
taxnounMoney or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
paymentnoun(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services, or the transaction that conveys it.
dividendnoun(finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
proceedsnounRevenue; gross revenue.
profit-takingnounAlternative form of profit taking. [(finance) The act of extracting profit, as cash or equivalent, from an investment, often by selling part of it.]
profitabilitynounThe quality or state of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.

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