The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word INCOME
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More clues leading to the result INCOME
- Returns home with invitation to attend?
- Returns home — cold ’ouse
- Returns home with company and yours truly
- Returns home with invitation?
- The writer joins cool firm for salary
- Earnings once I’m working
- Money received once I’m working
- Fashionable to show up with money
- Collapsed mine swallowing company’s takings
- Revenue from Indiana, Colorado and Maine
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The straight part
We know that "Earning" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case earning = income.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does INCOME mean?
INCOME noun- Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
- Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
- A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
- A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
- An entrance-fee.
- A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
- A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
- That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.