{
    "term": "earnings",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the money that you earn for the work that you do",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a rise in average earnings"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is claiming compensation for loss of earnings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Blue-collar workers saw their real earnings diminish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was jailed for six months in June for living off immoral earnings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her net earnings last year were $15 000."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her win in Australia has taken her career earnings through the million-dollar barrier."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Levels of earnings are still rising."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People with a university education tend to have higher earnings than those with a basic education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You must declare all earnings to the tax office."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "record", "strong"],
                "… of earnings": ["level"],
                "verb + earnings": ["have", "generate", "calculate"],
                "earnings + noun": ["estimate", "forecast", "projection"],
                "preposition": ["earnings  from", "earnings  of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "ten times, twenty times, etc. earnings",
                    "growth in earnings",
                    "loss of earnings"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the profit that a company makes",
            "labels": "(North American English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company's earnings per share have fallen to 29p."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whisky accounts for a large percentage of Scotland's export earnings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An earnings shortfall might point to problems with our forecasting abilities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Chile's earnings from exports rose by 2%."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company reported earnings of $2.9 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The stock trades at about 40 times earnings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "long-term increases in corporate revenues and earnings"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's projected earnings for the next twelve months"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the second-quarter earnings announcement"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["high", "record", "strong"],
                "… of earnings": ["level"],
                "verb + earnings": ["have", "generate", "calculate"],
                "earnings + noun": ["estimate", "forecast", "projection"],
                "preposition": ["earnings  from", "earnings  of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "ten times, twenty times, etc. earnings",
                    "growth in earnings",
                    "loss of earnings"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɜːnɪŋz/",
                "audio": "ea/earnings/earnings__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɜːrnɪŋz/",
                "audio": "ea/earnings/earnings__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}