Earner

Definitions

1. One who earns money.
2. A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.
   Australia, British

Equivalents

Examples

“Teachers are not simply wage earners 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.”

“A remaining downside with potentially big unintended consequences is the legislated proposal doesn’t yet adjust the spouse income test⟳, excluding many couples where one earner loses their job and leading to a perverse and undesirable "benefit cliff".”

“Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.”

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