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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
earn
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
earn a fortune
▪ He hopes to earn a fortune from his latest invention.
earn a livelihood
▪ It’s difficult to earn a livelihood as an artist.
earn a wage
▪ Both parents were earning a wage, yet money was still tight.
earn an honest living
▪ I’m just trying to earn an honest living.
earn sb's gratitude
▪ The useful service she performed raising money has earned our gratitude.
earn your keep (=do things in return for the things that are provided for you)
▪ It’s time you got a job and started earning your keep.
earn/be paid a pittance
▪ The musicians earn a pittance.
earn/get/receive a salary
▪ She’s now earning a good salary as an interpreter.
earn/make a living
▪ She was able to make a living out of her talents as a cook.
earn/win a reputation
▪ As a young publisher, she earned a reputation for toughness.
make/earn money
▪ She makes a little money by babysitting.
turn/earn a profit (=make a profit)
▪ Without the liquor sales, the store could not turn a profit.
win/earn/gain respect (=start to be respected)
▪ Morris eventually won the respect of his fellow workers.
win/earn/receive praise
▪ The trade deal won praise from the American business community.
win/receive/earn rave reviews
▪ The performance earned them rave reviews from critics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ The collapse of the kip means a mid-ranking civil servant now earns about $ 21 a month.
▪ In 1994, records show, he earned about $ 130, 000.
▪ Students who attended schools that regularly received and posted notices of job openings earned about $ 950 more than the annual average.
▪ Working conditions for adults, who earned about $ 3 a day, were also dangerous.
▪ Kruger was earning about $ 500, 000.
▪ I expect to earn about $ 60, 000 in each of the next three years.
▪ Assistant administrators earned about $ 32, 000.
▪ According to the plaintiffs' own arithmetic, Simpson could earn about $ 25 million over the course of his lifetime.
enough
▪ Few women earned enough to pay their own contribution.
▪ I was even earning enough to support myself in modest comfort.
▪ I earn enough to keep us both.
▪ Houses along the way had been freshly whitewashed, a sign that peasants were now earning enough to be concerned with appearances.
▪ It's not expensive to live here and I earn enough from my lessons to keep me going.
less
▪ In 1911 Bowley estimated that 2.5 m. adult men earned less than 25s. per week while working full-time.
▪ The new land would thus cost more to cultivate and earn less when harvested.
▪ Learn why you, the optimal high-tech mobile production unit, are earning less than your optimal reward.
▪ That came out to earning less than the mim. mum wage.
▪ Mme Keita probably earns less than I pay my watchman, yet she is skilled and well educated.
▪ Among computer buyers, the least penetrated group is households earning less than $ 30, 000 a year.
▪ It is the segregation of employment by gender which gives the best clues as to why women generally earn less than men.
▪ The portion rose to 71. 3 percent among those people earning less than $ 30, 000.
more
▪ There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands.
▪ White men with high school diplomas earn more than Hispanic women with college degrees.
▪ Subhadra said they earned more or less the same.
▪ To the surprise of even its makers, the film earned more than $ 70 million.
▪ The card is available only to home-owners earning more than Pounds 15,000 and with a telephone.
▪ Those who place more highly skilled or hard-to-find employees earn more.
▪ Wool combers, essential preparatory workers in the production of worsted yarn, earned more.
▪ In 1995, only 3 percent of people earning more than $ 100, 000 got audited.
■ NOUN
cents
▪ Analysts previously forecast 3M would earn 86 cents in the quarter.
▪ The regional telecommunications giant said it will earn 50 cents to 53 cents per share from operations in the first quarter.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ Analysts had expected Digital Link to earn about 19 cents a share for the fourth quarter, according to First Call.
▪ The company earned 44 cents a year earlier.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
▪ Mr Cohen added that he believes the company earned 51 cents or 52 cents a share in the fourth quarter.
company
▪ Only if the potential partner appears credible will the company earn a first meeting with eBay.
▪ By 1995 he wants the company to earn 20 percent of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.
▪ The company had earned $ 2. 3 million, or 43 cents a year earlier.
▪ Solomon believes the company earned $ 625 million, or 50 cents a share, in the quarter.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ The company earned $ 373 million, or 60 cents a share, in the fiscal second quarter a year earlier.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
credit
▪ Businesses focus on both sides of the balance sheet: spending and earning, debits and credits.
▪ But there are opportunities to build your resources relatively quickly by taking side missions to earn credits.
▪ If a Teamster fails to keep earning service credit, he can forfeit, or lose, all his prior service credit.
▪ In addition, she allegedly claimed an earned income credit of $ 323 on the basis of his fictional dependent.
▪ He earned a half credit in school.
▪ To liberals, it means closing loopholes for the rich and strengthening the earned income tax credit.
degree
▪ He also earned a law degree before changing his name from Margulois to Merrick and moving to New York in 1939.
▪ He earned a law degree in 1934, but he never practiced that kind of law at that kind of bar.
▪ And no more than one in twenty earned a college degree.
▪ One of my many dear children earned himself a creditable degree in environmental sciences a couple of years ago.
▪ Telbis-Preis went to college in the city of Timisoara and earned a structural engineering degree.
▪ Sachs got his degree in biology from Yale University and went on to earn degrees in medicine and film from Stanford University.
▪ Bhutto earned degrees at Harvard and Oxford.
dollar
▪ He had a patent and had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
▪ I earned barely ten thousand dollars a year, and James was still in college.
▪ For her latest film, Sliver, she has earned almost 3m dollars.
▪ Every day I earned approximately a dollar and a half.
▪ Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.
▪ It also lifts the yen-value of the money the exporters earn in dollars.
▪ Some governments of countries earning dollar surpluses supply Eurodollar deposits as a matter of policy.
▪ I was earning 4900 dollars a year teaching.
family
▪ Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.
▪ Now the buildings are being renovated into 41 apartments, mainly for families earning less than $ 30, 000 a year.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ If the family earns $ 100, 000, the tax bill drops by 22 percent.
▪ His father was a rickshaw puller, so every penny the family had was laboriously earned.
▪ But that rate rises to one in six families among those earning less than $ 25, 000 a year.
▪ Sixty angry pickers, whose families have earned a living down the centuries, vowed to defend the 30-acre site.
▪ You can walk down the street, raise your family, earn a living.
income
▪ She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned.
▪ Doctors' incomes Doctors are generally earning less these days as managed care becomes a larger part of the medical marketplace.
▪ The emphasis of action taken in favour of DRAs must be to achieve permanent changes in income earning potential and social cohesion.
▪ But the men who are without work do miss the income they no longer earn.
▪ Part-time farming related to other income earning activities is concentrated in the DRAs.
▪ As in the 1920s, income from capital is rising compared with income earned from work.
▪ But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
interest
▪ All your accounts remain separate, but the amount of interest you earn is based on the family's total.
▪ This total is then divided by interest expense to obtain the times interest earned ratio.
▪ As the dividends are paid they can be reinvested, and hence interest can be earned.
▪ At the same time, the government lost millions in interest not earned while taxes, fees, and fines went uncollected.
▪ The manager executes the deals for a small annual fee - usually 0.5 percent deducted from the interest earned.
▪ It was certainly not a prohibition on lending money at a rate of interest which can be earned by the recipient.
▪ In between, you might receive a check twice annually for the interest earned on that bond.
job
▪ During the remainder of the evening I did small jobs to earn money for tobacco.
▪ Students who attended schools that regularly received and posted notices of job openings earned about $ 950 more than the annual average.
▪ He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes - but he knew this was just a dream.
▪ So to do your job, and earn your pay, you really have to be pressing all the time.
▪ After leaving school at 16, she took three part time jobs to earn money.
▪ I done my job, I earned this money, all this shit!
▪ I made them wash and iron and do certain cleaning jobs to earn their spending money.
▪ More than seventy have been placed permanently in private sector manufacturing jobs earning $ 9 to $ 10 per hour.
keep
▪ As the illustration above shows, even if you just use the Family Rail Card once, it will earn its keep.
▪ Go somewhere else, though, earn your own keep.
▪ Jonathon was earning his keep and so was Melanie, in the shop on her feet all day.
▪ The police earned their keep with arrests 20 percent up at 5,006, but figures highlighted a varying police approach.
▪ NatWest's subsidiaries will have to earn their keep while technology will be deployed to lift service levels.
▪ All are interesting shrubs which will earn their keep through the year.
▪ Certainly each of the six crab apples planted in my garden earn their keep in wildlife and ornamental terms.
livelihood
▪ Professionals and Amateurs About one-fifth of parochial directors of music earn their livelihood through music.
▪ To earn my livelihood as artist in Berne.
million
▪ Since 1991, when it lost $ 151 million, National has improved each year, earning $ 264 million in 1995.
▪ Solomon believes the company earned $ 625 million, or 50 cents a share, in the quarter.
▪ When Stride Rite was earning $ 100 million pretax, it was doing it by selling product that has since been abandoned.
▪ That earned Glaxo Wellcome 42 million rupees.
▪ Overseas, Chevron earned $ 251 million in its upstream operations, up $ 172 million from a year ago.
▪ The company earned $ 373 million, or 60 cents a share, in the fiscal second quarter a year earlier.
▪ Net-work anchors earn over a million dollars a year.
money
▪ They work all day and pay tax on the money they earn.
▪ He had quietly gathered all the money they had earned, everything Bill left, everything Charles had, and run away.
▪ The money you earn from twelve bags will pay the whole of what you owe.
▪ It also lifts the yen-value of the money the exporters earn in dollars.
▪ Equivalent sums would be credited to the enterprises' bank accounts, subject to verification that the money had been earned legally.
▪ Moreover, the money that is earned on those set-aside funds is tax-free to the employee until he receives it.
▪ The firm had been accused of illegally moving money around banks to earn interest from several accounts at once.
▪ True to its nature, California is considered the first to tax athletes for the money they earned while in-state.
nickname
▪ This powerful gift was gladly received and subsequently wielded effectively in many battles, earning Sigmar his nickname of Heldenhammer.
▪ Their flocks numbered in the thousands, earning them the nickname of migrating millionaires'.
▪ Bonefish's real name was Hector, but he had earned his nickname because of his uncanny ability to find the elusive fish.
▪ Stephen even earned the nickname Hawkeye.
pay
▪ So to do your job, and earn your pay, you really have to be pressing all the time.
▪ As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay.
percent
▪ Leading shares now earn just 6 percent gross and pay dividends of 4 percent.
▪ While Jeb Bush received a 56 percent grade, President Bush earned a 52 percent approval rating from respondents.
▪ Her money is spread over several different building society accounts earning her only 5.7 percent or £1,140 a year.
▪ Beginning around this time, Taylor had another sideline-his patented tennis net posts, from which he earned a 10 percent royalty.
▪ By 1995 he wants the company to earn 20 percent of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.
▪ Their female counterparts were earning 7. 7 percent less in 1995 than in 1989-13 percent less after correcting for inflation.
▪ With interest rates at their lowest level for 15 years, your savings could be earning only 3 percent interest.
place
▪ He will be hoping his performance will earn him a place in the 10-strong squad for New Zealand in January.
▪ Andrews again in 1978, and Nicklaus won again, the townspeople decided that he had earned his place in the pantheon.
▪ Victory would earn them a semi-final place against Surrey or Kent tomorrow.
▪ Cabbage has earned a secure place in the winter repast for its unpretentious, wholesome goodness and its versatility.
▪ He still has some way to go to earn a place in the golfing record books.
▪ They say downtown still has to prove itself, to earn its place as the living-working-playing capital of the county.
▪ And no one doubts that he has earned his place among the sport's leading players.
▪ Andrew, who has learning difficulties, is a keen violinist and has earned a place in Banks Brass Band.
praise
▪ It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
▪ Conversely, if a person expects that meeting deadlines will not earn praise, he or she may not be as motivated.
▪ Verio also earned praise for growing through its 4,000 reseller partners around the world.
▪ In college, he continued to excel, earning praise in the classroom almost as often as on the basketball court.
profit
▪ Members benefited from both the restricted entry and competition controls, allowing many of them to earn oligopolistic profits.
▪ Largely unregulated managed-care organizations earn outrageous profits.
▪ Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit.
▪ To make taffy, to advertise taffy, to provide employment, to earn a profit, to inspire Otto Rossler?
▪ I believe they offer every reason to earn you a profit during the winter months.
▪ And Liggett reportedly has earned little or no profit for each of the last several years.
▪ Cash is totally liquid, but earns no profit.
▪ Operating efficiency: measures of the efficiency with which corporate resources are employed to earn a profit. 4.
reputation
▪ Through lectures, articles, and letters, she earned a reputation as an expert on workhouses.
▪ A team captain, Gumina had earned a reputation for stiff defense, clutch play.
▪ He travelled widely in connection with the company's business and contributed many technical papers which earned him an international reputation.
▪ Columbia Valley, in Washington state, is earning a reputation for skillful blending and sound value.
▪ And it has earned Mr Welch a reputation for arrogance and ruthlessness that he finds embarrassing.
▪ In his years on the beat, Cowgill earned a reputation for fearlessness.
▪ He said he had earned an international reputation, particularly in his work on the transportation of dangerous chemicals.
▪ She eschews small fields and has earned a reputation for unearthing longshots in competitive races.
respect
▪ His instinct for identifying photographs that would seize the public's attention earned him the awed respect of professionals.
▪ In losing, though, she earned as much respect as any victory gained her.
▪ His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect.
▪ What she once considered oppressive about Joseph, his cold style and impenetrable attitude, now earned her respect.
▪ His courageous industry earned the respect, not only of his fellow Roman Catholics, but of Christians of all denominations.
▪ As a new manager, you had to earn their respect.
▪ Maybe they should be apart until they have earned the total respect of the rest of the cricketing world.
▪ Emslie earned great respect from all who knew her in those days.
return
▪ The decisions are commercial: what will earn the best return on the investment?
▪ On the other hand, cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank.
▪ Do/can we earn an adequate return for the risk involved? and is there a clearly identified ability to repay?
▪ Using your Isa allowance: You can put up to £7,000 in an ordinary Isa to earn tax-free returns.
▪ Over liquid banks will have money balances earning no return, so that profit opportunities are being lost.
▪ And for three years, it earned its return, every month.
▪ Indeed he now questioned if the United States itself had earned an adequate return from its investment in the special relationship.
▪ In the meantime, you are looking to earn a high return.
salary
▪ Now, just for once try and earn that over-inflated salary we pay you.
▪ Generally, building inspectors, including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.
▪ I earn a 5 figure salary and have three houses.
▪ I, who was earning the only salary in the house and doing all the housekeeping, I should stop bothering him?
▪ You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile, so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result.
▪ Even the core group of 30 who are paid professionals earn salaries unlikely to inspire letters to the editor.
▪ I am 22, but I will not be able to earn my first salary until I reach 24.
share
▪ The younger generations of Tenants still earn their share of fame and, unfortunately, notoriety.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ This national income is divided among those individuals who actually earned a share of it.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
▪ The industrial manufacturing company earned 31 cents a share in its latest fourth quarter, compared with 37 cents a year ago.
▪ In the year-ago period, it earned 13 cents a share.
▪ Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
title
▪ This is the factor that earns falsificationists their title.
▪ Flanagan more than earns the title with some of his deeds.
▪ He earned this disputable title by his thoughtful approach to critical issues and the undeniable distinction of his critical practice.
▪ Elite performers earn that title because they are, by nature, not good losers.
▪ Triton roamed the shores raping anyone who took his fancy and earned himself the title Sea Satyr.
▪ Even on my own world there are only a few who earn the title of sei-sen - sword bearer.
wage
▪ Consequently, rather than earning a wage, they are likely to find themselves claiming a range of benefits, grants and allowances.
▪ It was what happened when young people earned decent wages, and had the means to buy clothes and go to discos.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ She was overjoyed to find she earned a much higher wage than for her factory work.
▪ But they did not earn a separate wage, they lived in effect in a mainly cashless society.
▪ I would do anything to earn a wage, however small - be a servant, even.
▪ Many workers, who had earned the princely wage of £3-£4 in jet's heyday, ended in the workhouse.
week
▪ Now he earns £75 a week as a filing clerk, lives with a cousin and attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
▪ If we all bring in cans for redemption, about how much money do you think we can earn in a week?
▪ He earned nearly £22 a week and lived in a bedsitter.
▪ He was a carpenter earning about £120 a week.
▪ How much did he earn in the fourth week?
▪ Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.
▪ As he will know, those in work who earn more than £15 a week lose £1 for every £1 that they earn.
▪ Imagine what it would be like to earn a million every week.
woman
▪ Last year she was Britain's highest-paid woman, earning £20.5m from her novels.
▪ Those are men and women earning $ 8 to $ 9 an hour, 20 hours a week.
▪ He didn't really approve of women earning a living, but the extra income would come in useful.
▪ But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
▪ But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.
▪ Yet, full-time working women still earned only 72 cents for each dollar a man earned in 1994.
▪ Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed.
▪ If we examine these data for gender differences, we see that at all levels women earn considerably less than men.
work
▪ The danger to those who earn their living from work in the United States may seem remote in the mid-1990s.
▪ They have earned their rest from work.
▪ Those who earn their living from work in the United States have been betrayed.
▪ It is earned through hard work and only through continued hard work and high standards can be retained.
▪ As in the 1920s, income from capital is rising compared with income earned from work.
▪ Leisure is no longer defined as something earned by work; work, rather, is to be made available by leisure.
▪ No other trend has worked more surely to betray those who earn their living from work.
worker
▪ Two-bedroom terraced properties are selling for £120,000-far beyond the means of most public-sector workers earning £20,000.
▪ Top performing hourly workers in 1988 could earn as much as $ 80, 000 in earnings including bonus.
▪ The article featured a group of nursery workers earning Pounds 2 an hour.
▪ Like the other outreach workers Saturday, Harris earned the princely sum of $ 24 for her hours of outreach.
▪ But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.
▪ It is families who produce the workers who earn the salaries to pay the taxes that support the system.
▪ Oh, and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day ... These are sick jokes.
▪ Since young workers typically earn lower salaries, their greater numbers would be partially offset by their lower earnings.
year
▪ I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain.
▪ The company earned 44 cents a year earlier.
▪ Josie had told her that Matthew Mitchell earned thirty-three thousand a year.
▪ He will earn £54million this year, making him the highest-paid sportsman in the world.
▪ I was earning 4900 dollars a year teaching.
▪ A teacher at the pay threshold would earn £24,000 a year.
▪ Public school teachers earned $ 547 a year.
■ VERB
expect
▪ Analysts had expected Digital Link to earn about 19 cents a share for the fourth quarter, according to First Call.
▪ By selling its products and services, the workshop's expected to earn £300,000 this year.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
▪ One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem.
▪ I expect to earn about $ 60, 000 in each of the next three years.
▪ Analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research expected Northeast earned 56 cents in the 1995 fourth quarter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
earn £20,000/$30,000 etc gross
earn/win your spurs
▪ But thanks to Sheila, now you don't have to go all the way to Dodge City to win your spurs.
▪ David had done absolutely nothing to earn his spurs when Samuel anointed him.
▪ Now he has won his spurs, he can afford to recognise mistakes like that without fearing loss of face.
▪ Pistoliers are young nobles who have yet to win their spurs and assume their rightful position as Knights of the Empire.
earning/purchasing/bargaining etc power
▪ At the same time the peso was devalued by 600 % and inflation soared over consumers' purchasing power declined.
▪ Dollars have less international purchasing power and more dollars have to be spent.
▪ In a competitive market the bargaining power of the owner of a particular commodity is limited.
▪ Pensions represent a transfer of resources in the form of purchasing power from current taxpayers or pension-fund contributors to past contributors.
▪ That reduces the real purchasing power of wages.
▪ The drop in inflation boosted purchasing power, he said.
▪ The goods became obtainable, but not purchasable, because of the lack of purchasing power among the population.
▪ The third category relates to private transactions, where an equality of bargaining power is usually to be presumed.
get/score/earn Brownie points
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alan earns $30,000 a year.
▪ At the peak of his career, Rogers was earning more than seven million dollars a year.
▪ Enjoy your vacation - you've earned it!
▪ Gail earned her place on the team by practicing hard.
▪ It's not uncommon nowadays for women to earn more than their husbands.
▪ Our finances look better if we include the profit earned on the sale of our London offices.
▪ The company earned $187 million in 1998.
▪ The Washington Post Company earned $187 million in 1987.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Belinda was three, and he had to earn some money.
▪ Growers characterize the upcoming battle as a fight for their right to earn a living.
▪ I've paid as I've earned.
▪ Instead they work to earn Trefoils.
▪ It was twice what he earned.
▪ Poors 500 Index and reinvested the dividends, he would have earned a healthy 37. 5 percent return.
▪ Singh had earned his prize with the shot that tied up this championship.
▪ The 1986 Tax Reform Act ended the differential taxation of earned income and capital gains.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earn

Earn \Earn\ ([~e]rn), n. (Zo["o]l.) See Ern, n.
--Sir W. Scott.

Earn

Earn \Earn\ ([~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Earned ([~e]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Earning.] [AS. earnian; akin to OHG. arn[=o]n to reap, aran harvest, G. ernte, Goth. asans harvest, asneis hireling, AS. esne; cf. Icel. ["o]nn working season, work.]

  1. To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).

    The high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn.
    --Milton.

  2. To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.

    I earn that [what] I eat.
    --Shak.

    The bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or the sweat of my brow.
    --Burke.

    Earned run (Baseball), a run which is made without the assistance of errors on the opposing side.

    Syn: See Obtain.

Earn

Earn \Earn\ ([~e]rn), v. t. & i. [See 1st Yearn.] To grieve. [Obs.]

Earn

Earn \Earn\, v. i. [See 4th Yearn.] To long; to yearn. [Obs.]

And ever as he rode, his heart did earn To prove his puissance in battle brave.
--Spenser.

Earn

Earn \Earn\, v. i. [AS. irnan to run. [root]11. See Rennet, and cf. Yearnings.] To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
earn

Old English earnian "deserve, earn, merit, labor for, win, get a reward for labor," from Proto-Germanic *aznon "do harvest work, serve" (source also of Old Frisian esna "reward, pay"), denominative verb from *azno "labor" especially "field labor" (source of Old Norse önn "work in the field," Old High German arnon "to reap"), from PIE root *es-en- "harvest, fall" (cognates: Old High German aren "harvest, crop," German Ernte "harvest," Old English ern "harvest," Gothic asans "harvest, summer," Old Church Slavonic jeseni, Russian osen, Old Prussian assanis "autumn"). Also from the same root are Gothic asneis, Old High German esni "hired laborer, day laborer," Old English esne "serf, laborer, man." Related: Earned; earning.\n

Wiktionary
earn

Etymology 1 vb. (lb en transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. Etymology 2

vb. (context UK dialect dated English) To curdle, as milk. Etymology 3

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To long; to yearn. 2 (context obsolete English) To grieve. Etymology 4

n. (alternative form of erne English)

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WordNet
earn

  1. v. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, realize, realise, pull in, bring in]

  2. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions [syn: garner]

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Wikipedia
EARN

EARN or Earn may refer to:

EARN

  • European Academic and Research Network, a defunct computer networking organisation succeeded by TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association)
  • Earned Assets Resource Network, a non-profit investment organisation based in San Francisco
  • European Asteroid Research Node, an association of asteroid research groups (see Minor planet)

Earn

  • Loch Earn
  • River Earn
  • Bridge of Earn
  • Earn out
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Usage examples of "earn".

I listened patiently to all the complaints of the mother who maintained that, in giving up the character of castrato, Therese had bidden adieu to fortune, because she might have earned a thousand sequins a year in Rome.

He explained that this was the time when the adolescents had to perform some great deed to earn adulthood, deeds that often included acts of mayhem against non-Sand People races.

The rival view was that true riches lay in trade, agriculture and industry, where wealth was truly earned and productively used.

Walton had been known to brag that her house was the best furnished in the street, and on this she was right When in 1916 and at the age of seventeen she had married Alee, he was just out of his time in the shipyard and owing to the war earning good money.

I wished he had spent his gold on himself and left me poor, for it seemed to me I had need of nothing save the little I earned by my pen--I was content to live an anchorite and dine off a crust for the sake of the divine Muse I worshipped.

Until now I have earned twenty crowns, but I am afraid the lady will get tired of it, and you can make me earn two sequins by answering a line.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

He had earned his own wings as a Naval Aviator at Pensacola, and had tried to get back in the Navy after Pearl Harbor.

It has been avidly read until Philip of Spain has earned the contempt of every upright man.

An eye for an eye, the old book says, and I was waiting for Aymer to come of age and earn his spurs.

How had Baff, your average minnow, mortally offended a marina mogul to earn that doom?

A garnet brooch deftly unclipped from the bombasine blouse worn by a nanny earned a gaol term or transportion no different to the neatest unclipping of a diamond pin from the silk bodice of a duchess.

Fire Lotusor poor Bulbul or my Lord Zeid, whose mad whims need more gold than he earns from the Space Giver lamps?

Stashed in your purse you have far more than Caddie will earn in a month.

The cayote lives chiefly in the most desolate and forbidding desert, along with the lizard, the jackass-rabbit and the raven, and gets an uncertain and precarious living, and earns it.