<def-root>An <fen>Earner</fen> receives <fen>Earnings</fen> by providing <fen>Goods</fen> to a <fen>Buyer</fen>; providing the <fen>Goods</fen> also generally entails a cost, which may or may not be included in the consideration. This frame emphasizes the effect on the <fen>Earner</fen> and often generalizes across an indefinite number of transactions with various parties. Some of the LUs (e.g. <ment>earn.v</ment>) primarily refer to the to the <fen>Earnings</fen> without reference to cost, others to the amount the <fen>Earnings</fen> differ from the cost, emphasizing either a net loss (e.g. <ment>loss.n</ment>) or net gain (e.g. <ment>net.n</ment>).
<ex>This reflects the 15 % jump in <t><fex name="Earnings">earnings</fex></t> over 1994 .</ex>
<ex><fex name="Earner">We</fex> <t>made</t> <fex name="Earnings">nearly two million</fex> <fex name="Goods">on resales alone</fex> <fex name="Time">last year</fex> .</ex>
<ex>After a <fex name="Earnings">$ 1.5 million</fex> <t>loss</t> , the company is in no state to continue .</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Buyer</fen> is the source of the <fen>Earnings</fen> of the <fen>Earner</fen>.</def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Earner</fen> is involved in a transaction or set of transactions as the party that receives payment.</def-root>
<def-root><fen>Earnings</fen> are the money given to the <fen>Earner</fen> in a transaction, generally in exchange for <fen>Goods</fen>.
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<def-root><fen>Goods</fen> is anything including labor or time, for example, which is exchanged for <fen>Earnings</fen> in a transaction.
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<def-root>In some cases, earning is described per unit of <fen>Goods</fen>.
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<def-root>This FE is any unit in which goods or services can be measured. Generally, it occurs in a <ment>by</ment>-PP.
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<def-root>The means by which the <fen>Earner</fen> gains money.
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<def-root>Any description of the action of earning which reveals correllated details, especially characterizations of the <fen>Earner</fen> which influence the event.</def-root>
<def-root>A state of affairs that the <fen>Earner</fen> intends to bring about as a result of participating in the Commercial Transaction.</def-root>
<def-root>The location where the <fen>Earner</fen> makes their <fen>Earnings</fen>.
<ex>She <t>made</t> a lot of money <fex name="Place">in Africa</fex> .</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The time when the <fen>Earner</fen> makes their <fen>Earnings</fen>.
<ex>Pfizer <t>made</t> billions <fex name="Time">in the 1990s</fex> .</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies an event during which the <fen>Earner</fen> receives <fen>Earnings</fen> in a transaction.</def-root>
<def-root>This FE denotes a proposition from which the event of earning or losing logically follows.</def-root>
Commerce_collect
Commerce_collect
Commerce_pay
COD: obtain (money) in return for labour or services.
COD: money or income earned.
COD: a financial gain, especially the difference between an initial outlay and the subsequent amount earned.
FN: money spent by a company, cutting into profit.
COD: income, especially when of a company and of a substantial nature.
COD: money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments.
FN: amount earned after subtracting losses and other costs.
COD: gain or earn (money or profit).
COD: acquire (a sum) as clear profit.
COD: earn less (money) than one is spending.
COD: the outcome of a business's trading over a given period, expressed as a statement of profit or loss.
FN: make in money