(alsoearning potential)WORKPLACEtheamountofmoneythat it ispossiblefor you to make inyourwork:Thelevelofeducationattainedhas ahugeimpactonearningspotential.FINANCEtheamountofmoneythat it ispossiblefor abusinessto make:Moreimportantly,investorsshouldknowhow a company'sstockpricecomparestoitsearningspotential.FINANCEtheamountofmoneythat it ispossiblefor aproductto make for abusiness:Cotton still has moreearningpotentialbecause ofhigheryieldsfrom eachacre.(Definition ofearnings potentialfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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earnings potentialThe plaintiff provided testimony about theearningspotentialassociated with a medical degree and sought half of the expected earnings associated with the degree.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As justices are selected from the legal and political elite, they may haveearningspotentialbeyond their judicial salary.From theCambridge English CorpusOne can, for example, have lowearningspotentialbut still be a very talented parent or friend.From theCambridge English CorpusA degree is taken as a proxy forearningspotentialand social class.From theCambridge English CorpusOne possibility here, as a means of implicitly tagging highearningspotentialfor the purposes of higher taxation, is some form of graduate tax.From theCambridge English CorpusSecondly, there is an important distinction between ability in a comprehensive sense, and ability as it specifically affectsearningspotential.From theCambridge English CorpusThe result occurs because men with highearningspotentialmarry women with highearningspotential.From theCambridge English CorpusWhile normalizing income to reflect proportion ofearningspotentialor relationship to personal wealth may yield stronger statistical results, such information is not consistently available.From theCambridge English CorpusA human capital approach places a heavy emphasis onearningspotentialand does not value intangible losses, such as the social isolation and psychological stress imposed by the condition.From theCambridge English CorpusTo control for the significant levels of inequality inearningspotentialthat remain, we will therefore have to supplement endowment egalitarianism with some form of 'transfer egalitarianism'.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/earnings-potential##
