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earn English

Meaning earn meaning

What does earn mean?
Definitions in simple English

earn Verb

— If you earn something you get it by working or doing something. I earn a lot more money at my new job than at my last job. He worked hard to earn our respect. She earned a bad name for herself by her bad behavior. The child earned a spanking by not listening to his parents. It took a long time to earn their trust. — If you think you have earned something, you think you should have it because of what you have done. After completing that project I thought I had earned some time to rest.

earn

— verb (= clear, make, bring in) 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 — verb acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

Synonyms earn synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as earn?

earn English » English

gain win acquire get obtain profit procure make deserve secure reach merit attain achieve bring in accrue warrant take in take receive realize realise pull in make money enlist clear woo save recruit reap rate rally pick up make a profit harvest garner enrol canvass attract arrive at accomplish yield profit yield win out wages usually in the turn over turn try triumph

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Topics earn topics

What do people use earn to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Earn
Social behavior Religion Practice religion

Salvation

Conjugation earn conjugation

How do you conjugate earn?

earn · verb

Examples earn examples

How do I use earn in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I want to earn a lot of money.
I would like to earn more money.
I'd like to earn more money.
Tom doesn't earn much.
America is a lovely place to be, if you are here to earn money.
It's by no means impossible to earn one million yen a month.
I've got to earn my own living.
Unique ideas helped him to earn a high income.
He doesn't earn enough money to live on.
He worked hard to earn a lot of money.
He works hard to earn his living.
Women earn less than men.
Does Tom earn enough money to live in the city?
How much money do you want to earn?
Don't spend more than you earn.
Does someone know how to earn money in time of crisis?
They wanted to earn money.
I earn 100 Euros a day.
Ill-gotten gains are short-lived. The only way to make real money is to earn every penny.
How will you earn your daily bread?
My investments earn about 10 percent a year.
They earn their living by collecting and selling old newspapers.
They found it difficult to earn a living.
How much does he earn in a month?
How much does he earn per month?

Movie subtitles

But if Jerome brings that nest to Cubs for our Treasures From Home session next week, he might earn some points for his Six.
They earn more but not enough for the rent.
You earn more money than I do, and they'd have called me first anyway.
I could earn that money by going back to the stage.
One has to earn a living, you know.
Well Ryan it appears to me you gentlemen are ready, to tackle almost anything to earn an honest dollar.
Come On,You Wanna Earn The Badge?
But here in America, I'm able to work and earn my food and clothing.
Here's where I'm apt to earn my fare back to Seattle.
I could do more for you in a year than you can earn in a lifetime on the force.
And it'll earn a measure of reflected glory.. forhimthatfiredit and him that stopped it.
We are therefore in the right to demand more space for the fathers of our children to earn their livelihoods!
Alyosha began to earn money himself.
I've got to earn it myself.
If you want to join me, you've got to earn it.
Tell me what to do. What do I have to do to earn myself a place?
We shall catch him and earn a hundred ducats as a reward.
Do you want to earn easy money?
It takes all I can earn to put bread in their poor little hungry mouths.
Sir. let a poor man earn a few sous.
She's reserved for my nephew and being taught how to earn his love first. before wasting her favours on others.
You'll earn your own food and pocket money.
They earn a great deal of money. And they wouldn't exchange their position for any other honor.
That's more than I earn in a year.
Gold! How did you earn all that, Concha?
If you earn a lot, why buy here? I'm comfortable here. And I think it's a good place to study.
The one who must earn the money.
You don't know either, how these poor Viennese girls earn for their living.
Do somethin' to earn your keep!
I'm old enough to earn a living.
It's just that I've never done anything to earn your love.
Isn't love the one thing you don't have to earn?
He's my boss, and I have to earn my living.
All I want is a chance to earn an honest living.
You also told us that all you wanted was a chance to earn an honest living.
May I ask, what do you hope to earn by giving lessons as a freelance?
But this time, you'll earn your way.

News and current affairs

Not only do these farmers then feed their families, but they also can begin to earn market income and to save for the future.
That means that Germans need to earn higher wages, commensurate with their increased productivity, so that they can afford more Greek and Spanish holidays.
The Fund will require internal reforms to earn that trust fully.
For most authors, that would be enough time to earn the bulk of the income that they would ever receive from their writings; after that, the works would be in the public domain.
Though students who attended preschool do not perform better than their peers in primary school, they do tend to earn more as adults.
Different world regions have different histories, which have given their peoples different ideas about how to live, govern themselves, and earn a living.
Most of Africa's farmers, working tiny plots, do not produce enough food to feed their families, much less to earn an income.
A company that develops a product would earn a share of reward money based on its share of the health improvements achieved by all the products competing for the available funds.
Indeed, pharmaceutical companies could expect to earn more from a cure for male baldness.
Investing in its children and young people provides the very highest return that any society can earn, in both economic and human terms.
This induced banks that were obliged to hold riskless assets in order to meet their liquidity requirements to earn a few extra basis points by loading up on the weaker countries' sovereign debt.
The result is that it is not uncommon for a bright, productive young professor in America to earn as much, if not more, than older and less productive colleagues.
In Europe, promising young researchers struggle and have to supplement teaching and research with outside jobs, while established professors earn good salaries.
This created a perverse incentive for commercial banks to buy the weaker governments' debt in order to earn what eventually became just a few basis points, as interest-rate differentials converged to practically zero.
Our hearts are with the rebelling youngsters and their legitimate yearning for freedom and basic rights to express themselves, choose their leaders, and earn their own living.
But the money undocumented workers earn goes abroad to build homes, start businesses, and take care of elderly parents throughout Latin America.
Consumers are diverting what little income they earn away from spending toward paying down debt and rebuilding savings.
Future workers from Gaza, having a moral right to earn their living in Israel, will become natural supporters of the maintenance of the truce.
This money should have gone to the world's poorest people rather than to the bankers, who certainly did not earn it.
It is incumbent on industries that deal with the poor to be transparent about how they earn their money - and to make the case for their activities strongly and publicly.
These could include, for example, efforts to organize viable alternatives to piracy for the tens of thousands of Chinese companies that currently earn a living from it.
Second, the projects will earn a return only if developed countries cooperate in setting up the right type of carbon markets.
Doing so would earn Germany the lasting gratitude of the countries that are currently subordinated to it, just as the Marshall Plan earned the United States the lasting gratitude of Europe.
The banks were happy to earn a few extra pennies on supposedly risk-free assets and loaded up their balance sheets with the weaker countries' government debt.
But long-term relationships are based on friendship and respect; coherent, well-argued positions will earn that respect.
As a result, Syriza stands to earn a crucial premium under Greek electoral law, according to which the party that gains the most votes is allocated an extra 50 of the parliament's 300 seats.
If Greece wants the prosperity associated with a technologically advanced, twenty-first-century economy, it will have to earn it, by producing innovative products that are competitive on world markets, just as Germany does.

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