earn

Plural: earns

Verb

Verb Forms: earned, earning, earns

• To gain money or reward for work or service.
• earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
  • "She earns a lot in her new job"
• acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
• To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
• To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).
• To receive payment for work.
• To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
• To achieve by being worthy of.
• To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
• Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.
• To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
• To grieve.

Noun

• Alternative form of erne

Examples

• He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO.  My bank account is only earning one percent interest.
• In that era, all their long, hard, dangerous labor in the mines barely earned them even enough to eat!
• My CD earns me six percent!
• Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent.
• Playing a seven-letter word can EARN you a bonus in Scrabble, if you’re clever.
• She earns more than forty thousand dollars a year in passive income from her parents' investments — that's what she gets before she even gets out of bed or lifts a finger.
• to earn a spot in the top 20
• With their hard work and dedication, they earned respect and a seat at the table.
• You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well.

Synonyms

bring in, clear, gain, garner, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in, deserve, generate, get, merit, rake in, rake it in, render, run, win, yearn, yield

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