gains (?.)
- avails
- box office
- capital gains
- cleanup
- clear profit
- commissions
- credit
- credits
- disposable income
- dividend
- dividends
- earned income
- earnings
- filthy lucre
- gain
- gate
- gate receipts
- get
- gettings
- gleanings
- gross
- gross income
- gross profit
- gross receipts
- hoard
- income
- increase
- intake
- interest
- killing
- lucre
- make
- makings
- neat profit
- net
- net income
- net profit
- net receipts
- output
- paper profits
- pelf
- percentage
- perk
- perks
- perquisite
- pickings
- proceeds
- produce
- profit
- profits
- rake-off
- receipt
- receipts
- receivables
- return
- returns
- revenue
- royalties
- store
- take
- take-in
- takings
- unearned income
- wealth
- winnings
- yield
So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."
Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare.—
