Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work.
- transitive verb To acquire or deserve as a result of effort or action.
- transitive verb To yield as return or profit.
- idiom (spurs/stripes) To gain a position through hard work and the accumulation of experience, often in the face of difficulties.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To curdle, as milk.
- To yearn.
- To gain by labor, service, or performance; acquire; merit or deserve as compensation or reward for service, or as one's real or apparent desert; gain a right to or the possession of: as, to
earn a dollar a day; to earn a fortune in trade; to earn the reputation of being stingy. - In base-ball, to gain or secure by batting or base-running, and not by the errors or bad play of opponents: as, one side scored 5, but had earned only 3 runs.
- To glean.
- noun An eagle.
- Same as
yearn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
ern , n. - verb obsolete To grieve.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To curdle, as milk.
- intransitive verb obsolete To long; to yearn.
- transitive verb 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).
- transitive verb To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages
- transitive verb (Baseball) a run which is made without the assistance of errors on the opposing side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect, dated To
curdle , asmilk . - verb transitive To
gain (success , reward, recognition) through appliedeffort orwork . - verb transitive To
receive payment for work. - verb intransitive To receive payment for work.
- verb transitive To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward
- verb transitive To be worthy of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- verb earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After about a half-mile or so, the grade steepens considerably and the meaning of the phrase "earn one's turns" becomes clear.
The Seattle Times 2012
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I found out it will take me 803 years to earn what Mark Teixeira will earn in one year (actually playing about 8 of those months) and I am using the term earn loosely (Does any anyone really earn that kind of money for playing a game?)
Baseball, Etcetera 2009
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I don't think foxsports should abuse the word "earn" like this.
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In my case, incidentally, the choice of writing in English was certainly motivated by wanting to earn from the writing.
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Letting those who earn money keep what they earn is NOT redistribution of wealth.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Moreover, their partners generally pay no more than 15 percent in taxes on most of the money they earn from the firm, compared with the top individual rate of 35 percent ....
More on the Height of Bravery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"We are going to talk with them and listento them and we are going to walk amongst them and again earn their support this November."
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A few white collar technically trained folks, however, may never again earn the money they made in the mid to late 1990s.
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's probably one of the most valuable things an employee can earn from a manager.
First Rule of Management: First, Do No Harm | Managing Greatness 2010
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It's probably one of the most valuable things an employee can earn from a manager.
First Rule of Management: First, Do No Harm | Managing Greatness 2010
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