weekly earnings

collocation in English

meaningsofweeklyandearnings

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weekly
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˈwiː.kli/us
/ˈwiː.kli/
happening once a week or ...
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earnings
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈɜː.nɪŋz/us
/ˈɝː.nɪŋz/
the amount of money that someone is paid ...
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(Definition ofweeklyandearningsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofweekly earnings

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As a supplement to theseweeklyearnings, the family received 12 stuivers poor relief.
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It is estimated that the average grossweeklyearningsof employees earning less than the national insurance lower earnings limit is approximately £24.
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The information about basic weekly wage rates andweeklyearningsof manual workers is given below.
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A person withweeklyearningsof £48 a week would at the present moment be paying £3·24 basic and reserve scheme contributions.
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I regret that information regarding their level ofweeklyearningsis not available.
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This is not typical of the unemployed as a whole who tend to have lower than average maleweeklyearningswhen in employment.
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We constantly read in the media about averageweeklyearnings, and those figures obviously are collated monthly.
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I am talking about the mere fact, which is that these averageweeklyearningshave been rising steadily for some time past.
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The following table gives the figures in respect of averageweeklyearnings.
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I understand that the averageweeklyearningsof the men concerned are approximately £15 and that their average weekly hours are 49.
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Averageweeklyearningsin real terms have gone up by a third.
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In reference to the averageweeklyearningsof industrial workers, the figure of £14–£15 is very misleading.
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The reason was that their netweeklyearningswere below this.
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He raised, first of all, the question of what we may describe as the normalweeklyearnings.
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The present rates are £49·20 where averageweeklyearningsare £79·50 or more and £34·25 where they are between £41 and £79·49.
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If that were proposed, it would involve considerable inroads into theirweeklyearnings.
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The new earnings survey results giving data for average grossweeklyearningsare given in the following table.
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The table gives information about the distribution of grossweeklyearningsfor some full-time employees.
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With overtime, payments by results, bonuses and so on taken into account, the median level ofweeklyearningsfor male manual workers was £62.
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In 1987–88 it is estimated that on average 2.7 million people receivedweeklyearningsless than the lower earnings limit for class 1 contributions.
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