Showing results for earner. Search instead for yearner.

earner

British

/ ˈɜːnə /

noun

a person who earns money
informal an activity or thing that produces income, esp illicitly

a nice little earner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Brigham Young University forward AJ Dybantsa was the highest NIL earner in all of college basketball this season.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

“Marty Supreme,” the slate’s next-highest earner, brought in just under $95 million worldwide.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Officials have positioned the entertainment and creative sector as a core growth engine and a potential top foreign-currency earner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

“The lower-end wage earner has definitely been struggling for a while,” Wells Fargo finance chief Michael Santomassimo said last week.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

Many of them get by by teaming up with another wage earner, a spouse or grown child.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023