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Earn   /ərn/   Listen
Earn

verb
(past & past part. earned; pres. part. earning)
1.
Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages.  Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in.  "She earns a lot in her new job" , "This merger brought in lots of money" , "He clears $5,000 each month"
2.
Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions.  Synonym: garner.



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"Earn" Quotes from Famous Books



... the keenest elation that he hastened home to bear the good news to D'Arnot. At last he was to be of some value in the world. He was to earn money, and, best of all, to travel ...
— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... you're thinking," said Julia calmly; "you're thinking—or you are almost—that it was nearly a bit of cheek on my part. I don't blame you. You're spoilt, all of you. The girls you take out earn their dinners and stalls too conscientiously; no matter how dull you are, they take pains to shine. Frankly, if you take me out, you've got to shine. I demand it. And you'd be surprised at the number of invitations an exacting ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton

... I forget how much, but he asked me this morning if I did not feel tempted to give him up and earn the reward.' ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... amid perils and temptations, until one night she was introduced to a young woman who offered her a position in Chicago where she could earn "good wages." The winter was coming on. The child had no store of winter clothing and looked forward to the terrible days of December and January with dread. She realized that the scanty pay for which she worked would buy her little of what she needed, and when the temptress talked ...
— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various

... Isle.' The stage I chose—a subject fair and free— 'Tis yours—'tis mine—'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; 190 Hence Monthly Critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play. Actors, a venal crew, receive support From public bounty for the public sport. To clap or hiss all have an equal claim, The cobbler's and his lordship's ...
— Poetical Works • Charles Churchill


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