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Etymology

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Fromearn +‎-er.

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earner (pluralearners)

  1. One whoearnsmoney.
    • 1972 May 14, Il Sung Kim,Kim Il Sung Works (Kim Il Sung Works;27)‎[1], Pyongyang, Korea: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Talk to the Delegation of the Japan National Association of Socialist Mayors, page177:
      Teachers are not simply wageearners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
    • 2020 March 24, Peter Whiteford, Bruce Bradbury, “Your guide to coronavirus payments for the extra million on welfare”, inThe Conversation[2]:
      A remaining downside with potentially big unintended consequences is the legislated proposal doesn’t yet adjust the spouse income test, excluding many couples where oneearner loses their job and leading to a perverse and undesirable "benefit cliff".
  2. (British, Australia) Aprofitableproduct orscheme; something that brings in good money.
    Those Japanese radios were a nice littleearner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.

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