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earner

noun

Etymology

From earn + -er.

  1. derived from *h₃er-✻ — “to move, stir; to rise, spring”
  2. derived from *rinnaną✻
  3. derived from rinna — “to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”
  4. inherited from rinnan — “to run”
  5. inherited from erne
  6. formed as earner — “earn + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who earns money.

  2. A profitable product or scheme

    A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.

    • Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.
    • Substantial income from new video markets made Shaker Run New Zealand's top earner at Cannes, closely followed by The Quiet Earth.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA