Earnings
Earnings noun - The amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received.
Usage example: after subtracting what we spent on music and refreshments, the earnings from our charity gala were still impressive
Sales and earnings are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sales" instead a noun "Earnings".
Nearby Word: earning
Sales
Sales noun - Income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time.
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Brother Orchid (1940) is about a gangster who reforms and joins a monastery trying to support itself and its various charities on the earnings of its flower sales.
Source: Saving the Orphanage -
He tells the second in command that he can take leadership and a bigger cut of earnings from their prostitution, gambling, drug dealing and pirated DVD sales.
Source: Series / Sleeper Cell
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