different between earnings vs award

earnings

English

Etymology

earning +? -s

Noun

earnings pl (plural only)

  1. Wages, money earned, income.
  2. (finance) Business profits.
  3. (finance) Gains on investments; returns.

Translations

Derived terms

  • retained earnings
  • transfer earnings

Anagrams

  • Nearings, Reginans, aginners, engrains, geranins, grannies

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award

English

Etymology

From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (out) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (to observe, regard, guard); see ward, guard, regard.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??w??d/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /??w??d/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

award (plural awards)

  1. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
  2. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
  3. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
  4. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.

Derived terms

  • Academy Award
  • award ceremony
  • book award
  • Darwin Award

Translations

Verb

award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)

  1. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge
    the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant
    • To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
  2. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
  3. (transitive) To give (an award).
    Synonym: bestow
    Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
  4. (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
    He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Synonyms

  • (make or grant an award): crown

Derived terms

  • awardable
  • awardee
  • awarder
  • awarding
  • awardment
  • reaward

Translations

Further reading

  • award in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • award in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • Warda, adraw

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