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EARNING

Definitions: EARNING

EARNING

Noun

1. That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Earn

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EARNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

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Crosswords: EARNING

English words defined with "EARNING": earning per sharequadruplestrategic buyout. (references)
Specialty definitions using "EARNING": BAR EXAMINERCleliaearning assets, earning capacity, earning power, earning statementFood securityindtjening per aktie, interest rate risk, interest rate spreadlaw examiner, Legsnet earnings per share, nonperforming loanPot-boilers, price earning ratio, proportionate benefitsreenforcerself employed, staff employee. (references)

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Modern Usage: EARNING

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Hey, you know I'm really earning now ("The Dean And I"; performing artist: 10CC)

Movie/TV Titles

Earning Money While Going to School (1950)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: EARNING

DomainTitle

Books

  • All Business Is Show Business Strategies For Earning Standing Ovations From Your Customers (reference)

  • Bear's Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning (Bear's Guide to Earning Degrees by Distnace Learning) (reference)

  • The Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools 1999: Earning Your Degree Without Leaving Home (Princeton Review Series) (reference)

  • The Kid's Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It (reference)

  • Walston's Guide to Christian Distance Learning: Earning Degrees Nontraditionally, 4th edition (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: EARNING

AuthorQuotation

Horace Greeley

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: EARNING

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

By dint of hard work, courage, perseverance, and will, he had succeeded in earning by his labour about seven hundred francs a year.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: EARNING

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The consequences of TBI include a dramatic change in the individual's life-course, profound disruption of the family, enormous loss of income or earning potential, and large expenses over a lifetime. (references)

The most basic daily routines may be affected from socializing with friends and enjoying normal and congenial relationships with family members to earning a living and taking care of a home. Faced with a very different life, people need encouragement to remain as active and involved as possible. (references)

Business

Industrial workers average three to four times the minimum wage, earning more at bigger, more advanced and prosperous enterprises. (references)

The Shaybah oil field, commissioned in late July 1998, represents a main source of Arab Extra Light crude earning a premium price in the world market. (references)

Despite their encouraging growth and potential, the leasing companies and modarbas are secondary lenders, as these do not have adequate leverage and earning potential of banks. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

A key group is young professionals in their prime earning years. (references)

Senegal

In 2000, some 500,000 tourists visited Senegal, earning the country $120 million. (references)

Tanzania

Tourism is one of the fastest growing foreign exchange earning sectors in Tanzania. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

Persons earning less than approximately $7,000 per year are exempt from income taxes. (references)

Afghanistan

The drought increased internal displacement and caused massive loss of livestock and other means of earning a living. (references)

Ethiopia

Coffee exports account for more than 40 percent of export earnings; hides and skins were the second highest foreign exchange earning exports. (references)

Political Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

The Democratic Party of Women participated in the parliamentary elections and won two party seats, earning 13 percent of the party-list votes. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Ghanaians earning incomes above 48,000,000 cedis (about USD 6,600) per year also attract the same rate. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Employees earning more than $47 (PRs 3,120) per month do not receive these benefits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: EARNING

"EARNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.76% of the time. "EARNING" is used about 801 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)95.76%7678,964
Adjective (general or positive)2.87%2372,767
Noun (singular)1.12%9117,287
Noun (proper)0.12%1339,140
Noun (common)0.12%1339,140
                    Total100.00%801N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: EARNING

Expressions using "EARNING": earning assets earning capacity earning per share earning power earning statement incentive earning price earning ratio. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "EARNING": fee-earning, high-earning, highest-earning, income-earning, interest-earning, non-earning, revenue-earning, wage-earning.

Containing "EARNING": profit-earning capacity, propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EARNING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

earning

211

earning from home

74

earning leave statement

43

earning money

25

earning price ratio

17

earning figure give ho more nobody scoop six

15

earning estimate

10

earning extra money

9

earning leave navy statement

8

earning money online

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EARNING

Language Translations for "EARNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كسب (acquire, acquiring, acquisition, attain, earn, gain, gaining, get, get smth. off one's hands, harvest, obtain, obtaining, prize, profit, reap, win, winning), ‏مرتب (in order, orderly, regular, salary, stipend, trim, well arranged, well ordered), ‏المكسوب, ‏ربح (account, bonus, draw, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, pay, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, profit, prosperity, revenue, win). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

赢得 (EARN, Earned). (various references)

   

Danish

  

erhvervshæmmende svagsyn (decrease of visual power causing earning incapacity), lønmodtagerne (wage earning classes), afkastningsgrad (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), befordring som jernbanesag (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), bonus (bonus, incentive earning, premium), delvis nedsættelse af erhvervsevne (diminution of earning capacity), driftsregnskab (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), Fællesskabsaktion inden for undervisningsteknologi-det teknologiske fremskridt i undervisningens tjeneste i Europa-forsøgsaktion (Community action in the field of learning technologies-D evelopment of E uropean l earning through t echnological a dvance-exploratory action, DELTA), indtægtsskabende aktiver (earning assets), afkastning af kapital (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), kapitaludbytte (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), vins-och förlusträkning (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), lønsomhed (earning power, profitability), P/E kvote (price earning ratio, price/earnings ratio), præmie (award, bonus, incentive earning, premium, prize), rentabilitet (capital turnover, earning capacity, earning power, profit earning capacity, profitability, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), resultatopgørelse (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), resultatregnskap (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), tabs-og vindingskonto (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), tjenestebefordring (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), indtjeningsevne (earning power, profitability). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

winstdragende activa (earning assets), winstcapaciteit (earning power, profitability), werkende bevolking (wage earning classes), verlies-en winstrekening (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), staat van lasten en baten (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), rentabiliteitsratio (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), rentabiliteit (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit earning capacity, profitability, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), rendement van kapitaal (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), premietarief (bonus, incentive earning, premium), premie (bonus, contribution, incentive earning, national insurance contribution, premium, prize, social security contribution), opbrengst uit kapitaal (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), dienstvervoer (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuloslaskelma (earning statement, earnings sheet, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), palkkio (bonus, fee, incentive earning, premium, reward, royalty), palkanlisä (bonus, fringe benefits, incentive earning, premium, wage supplements), pääoman tuotto (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), lainat ja sijoitukset (earning assets), kannattavuus (earning power, profitability, profitableness, viability), bonus (bonus, incentive earning, premium), ansiomahdollisuus (means of earning a livelihood), ansiokyky (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital). (various references)

   

French

  

salaire, revenus (earnings), profits (earnings), bénéfices (earnings). (various references)

   

German

  

verdienend (deserving, meriting). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εισόδημα εκ παγίας συμμετοχής (earning on permanent participations, holdings, permanent participations), οι μισθωτοί (wage earning classes), αποδοτικότητα (actual efficiency, earning power, effectiveness, efficiency, operating efficiency, output, performance, productiveness, profit earning capacity, profitability, work output), αποδοτικότητα του κεφαλαίου (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), απόδοση του κεφαλαίου (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), απόδοση κεφαλαίου (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), δάνεια και επενδύσεις (earning assets), λογαριασμός κερδών και ζημιών (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), Κοινοτική δράση στον τομέα των τεχνολογιών της μάθησης-ανάπτυξη των μεθόδων μάθησης στην Ευρώπη με τη βοήθεια των προηγμένων τεχνολογιών- (Community action in the field of learning technologies-D evelopment of E uropean l earning through t echnological a dvance-exploratory action, DELTA), η κατηγορία των μισθωτών (wage earning classes), πτώσις της οράσεως προκαλούσα ανικανότητα εργασίας (decrease of visual power causing earning incapacity), πρίμ (bonus, incentive earning, premium), μεταφορά υπηρεσιακή (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), μερική ανικανότητα (diminution of earning capacity), σχέση τιμής-κέρδους (P/E ratio, price earning ratio, price/earnings ratio), λογαριασμός κερδών ή ζημιών (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"שתכרות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

keresőképesség (earning capacity). (various references)

   

Italian

  

guadagno (accession, account, acquisition, advantage, benefit, earnings, efficiency, gain, increment, proceeds, profit, reward). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

収益率 (earning rate), 共稼ぎ  (husband and wife earning a living, working together), 共稼ぎ (earning a living together, working together), 先取 (earning the first, preoccupation). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅうえきりつ (earning rate), せ"しゅ (bow, earning the first, former master, late master, player, preoccupation, shipowner, slender hand, team, tyrant, usurpation, usurper), ともかせぎ (earning a living together, working together). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

벌음. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earningay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

transporte em serviço (deadhead traffic, non-revenue earning traffic, traffic conveyed on railway service), rentabilidade (profit earning capacity, profitability, profitable), rendimento do capital (capital turnover, earning capacity, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital), rendibilidade (earning power, profit earning capacity, profitability), rendabilidade (profit earning capacity, profitability), participações financeiras (earning on permanent participations, holdings, permanent participations), ganhos de participações financeiras permanentes (earning on permanent participations, holdings, permanent participations), diminuição da acuidade visual com incapacidade para o trabalho (decrease of visual power causing earning incapacity), conta de resultados de exercício (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de resultados (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de perdas e lucros (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de lucros e perdas (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), conta de ganhos e perdas (earning statement, income statement, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, statement of loss and gain), assalariado (employee, journeyman, Pensionary, salaried, salaried worker, stipendiary, wage earner, wage earning classes, wage worker), Acção Comunitária no domínio das Tecnologias Educativas,Desenvolvimento do Ensino Europeu através do Processo Tecnológico-Acção Exploratória (Community action in the field of learning technologies-D evelopment of E uropean l earning through t echnological a dvance-exploratory action, DELTA). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

зарабатывать заработок;поступление. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cosnadh (See <A HREF="mf03.html#coisinn">coisinn</A>). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sticanje (acquisition, purchase). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ganancia (accession, acquisition, asset, benefit, gain, haul, moneymaking, profit, return, revenue). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avkastningsförmåga (capital turnover, cultural value, earning capacity, earning power, profitability, profit-capital ratio, return from capital, return on invested capital, yield of a capital, yield on capital). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

para kazanma (money making), kazanma (achievement, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, gaining, obtainment, win, winning). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EARNING

Derivations

Words beginning with "EARNING": earnings. (additional references)

Words ending with "EARNING": learning, mislearning, nonearning, outearning, outlearning, overlearning, reearning, relearning, unlearning, yearning. (additional references)

Words containing "EARNING": learnings, nonearnings, yearningly, yearnings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EARNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bearning, earing, earling, earnign, earnning, Earnwine, eiring, Eirinn, Erannis, Ewanrigg, kearning, larning. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EARNING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "EARNING" (pronounced er"ning)
4er" n i ngadjourning, burning, churning, concerning, discerning, Durning, learning, returning, spurning, turning, yearning.
3-n i ngabandoning, abstaining, adjoining, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, zoning.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: EARNING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aginner, engrain, grannie, nearing.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r"

-1 letter: earing, gainer, ginner, inaner, narine, reagin, regain, regina.

-2 letters: anger, garni, grain, inane, inner, range, regna, reign, renig, renin.

-3 letters: ager, agin, airn, earn, gaen, gain, gane, gear, gien, girn, gnar, gran, grin, near, nine, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rein, ring.

-4 letters: age, ain, air, ane, ani, are, ear, eng, era, erg, ern, gae, gan, gar, gen, gie, gin, inn, ire, nae, nag, nan, rag, ran, reg, rei, ria, rig, rin.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r"
 

+1 letter: aginners, anearing, angering, arginine, earnings, engrains, enraging, grannies, learning, ravening, recaning, renaming, yearning.

 

+2 letters: angriness, answering, argentine, arginines, bannering, bantering, brazening, cankering, cantering, careening, caverning, cravening, dandering, dangering, darkening, deranging, enamoring, endearing, enframing, engrained, engraving, enlarging, ensnaring, gandering, gannister, gardening, garnering, grenadine, hankering, hardening, harkening, ignorance, ingrained, integrand, intergang, learnings, nattering, omnirange, organzine, pandering, parenting, ranginess, rattening, ravenings, reasoning, recanting, reearning, regaining, rehanging, reloaning, remaining, remanding, remanning, renailing, retaining, tangerine, unbearing, wandering, yearnings.

 

+3 letters: androgenic, argentines, astringent, bartending, begroaning, blarneying, brigandine, brigantine, broadening, carcinogen, chagrinned, coarsening, daringness, daundering, denaturing, deraigning, detraining, enamouring, enervating, engrafting, engrailing, engraining, engravings, ensnarling, entraining, entrancing, entrapping, entreating, enwrapping, estranging, fingernail, frangipane, gangrening, gannisters, garmenting, generating, generation, gingersnap, graininess, grandniece, greatening, grenadines, gynandries, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, hearkening, heartening, herniating, hoarsening, ignorances, impregnant, increasing, inearthing, integrands, interabang, interorgan, interregna, intragenic, intreating, laundering, margenting, maundering, meandering, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, numerating, omniranges, organzines, outearning, parentings, partnering, patterning, pertaining, prewarning, preweaning, readorning, realigning, reannexing, reasonings, rechanging, recleaning, reenacting, reengaging, refraining, regnancies, regranting, rehandling, reinvading, relearning, renaturing, renegading, renovating, repainting, repaneling, replanning, replanting, resinating, resonating, retraining, rewakening, sanderling, sauntering, serenading, sharpening, slandering, smartening, tangerines, transgenic, trepanning, uncreating, unearthing, ungainlier, unlearning, unraveling, unswearing, untreading, unwavering, venerating, wanderings, yearningly.

 

+4 letters: adventuring, alternating, anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, angrinesses, anteverting, antiforeign, arraignment, astringency, astringents, banteringly, baserunning, bedarkening, brigandines, brigantines, calendaring, calendering, carcinogens, carrageenin, centimorgan, chaperoning, coenamoring, darlingness, denervating, denigrating, denigration, embrangling, encouraging, encroaching, endangering, endearingly, endeavoring, enrapturing, enravishing, enthralling, enumerating, enwreathing, exonerating, fingernails, firefanging, forewarning, fragmenting, frangipanes, freelancing, garnishment, generations, germanizing, germinating, germination, gingersnaps, glaringness, grandnieces, gratineeing, handwringer, hibernating, impregnants, inbreathing, inebriating, infrangible, ingathering, ingrainedly, innervating, integrating, integration, interabangs, interacting, interagency, interchange, interfacing, interlacing, interlaying, interrobang, itinerating, lavendering, legionnaire, linearising, linearizing, malingering, maneuvering, manoeuvring, merchanting, mislearning, nitrogenase, nonallergic, nonearnings, nonintegral, orientating, ornamenting, outlearning, overhanding, overhanging, overmanning, patternings, penetrating, perennating, personating, precleaning, preenacting, prefranking, pregnancies, preplanning, preplanting, pretraining, promenading, ranginesses, reaccenting, realignment, reanalyzing, reanimating, reanointing, rearranging, reascending, reassigning, reattaining, reawakening, rebalancing, rebranching, redemanding, reengraving, reexamining, refastening, refinancing, rehardening, reimagining, reinflating, reinstating, relaunching, reobtaining, reordaining, repanelling, reseasoning, resignation, restraining, ropedancing, sanderlings, squandering, straitening, strangering, terminating, threatening, tragedienne, transecting, trapnesting, underacting, undereating, underlaying, underpaying, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unendearing, unfaltering, ungarnished, unignorable, unorganized, unravelling, unreasoning, unrewarding, unthreading, unwreathing, vernalizing.

 

+5 letters: androgenesis, androgenetic, anorexigenic, antiestrogen, antireligion, appertaining, apprehending, apprenticing, arraignments, ascertaining, astringently, baserunnings, benchmarking, boomeranging, breadwinning, buccaneering, carcinogenic, carpentering, carrageenins, centimorgans, centralising, centralizing, cocarcinogen, cogeneration, congregating, congregation, consecrating, contravening, copartnering, daringnesses, degenerating, degeneration, denigrations, deracinating, emargination, endeavouring, energization, engarlanding, entertaining, entreatingly, eternalizing, exenterating, fraternizing, freestanding, garnisheeing, garnishments, generalising, generalizing, generational, germinations, graininesses, graspingness, grecianizing, greenmailing, guaranteeing, handwringers, harbingering, heartburning, hearteningly, heartrending, ignorantness, impregnating, impregnation, incinerating, increasingly, ingatherings, integrations, intenerating, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, interfacings, intergrading, interlapping, interlarding, interleaving, interplaying, interrobangs, interspacing, interweaving, intransigent, keratinizing, kindergarten, legionnaires, menstruating, mineralising, mineralizing, neutralising, neutralizing, newspapering, nitrogenases, nonagenarian, nonbreathing, nonirrigated, nonoperating, nonstrategic, octogenarian, overcleaning, overhandling, overlearning, overmanaging, overplanning, overplanting, oversanguine, overtraining, paperhanging, philandering, prearranging, preassigning, precanceling, prefinancing, premalignant, preordaining, realignments, reappointing, reassignment, recanalizing, rechanneling, recognizance, recontacting, refashioning, regenerating, regeneration, rehumanizing, reimplanting, reinhabiting, reinitiating, reinstalling, rejuvenating, remaindering, remunerating, renominating, reorganizing, repatterning, reprimanding, repugnancies, resignations, ropedancings, sandpapering, sexagenarian, sloganeering, streamlining, tabernacling, tragediennes, transcending, transfecting, transferring, undercoating, underlapping, underplaying, understating, undertakings, undervaluing, unflattering, ungerminated, unharnessing, unintegrated, unwaveringly, urinogenital, warmongering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EARNING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 41 52 4E 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .-    .-.    -.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000001 01010010 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#65 &#82 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0041 0052 004E 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39355248434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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