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- 1. obtain (money) in return for labor or services: "they earn $35 per hour"
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Definition of earn verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. earn. verb. /ɜːn/ /ɜːrn/ Verb Forms. Idioms. [transitive, intransitive] to get money for work that you do. earn (something) He earns about $40 000 a year. to earn an income/a wage/a salary. She earned a living as a part-time secretary.
verb. uk / ɜːn / us. earn verb (GET MONEY) Add to word list. A2. to get money for doing work: She earns more than £40,000 a year. Fewer examples. She doesn't earn much money. Female workers earn, on average, a third less than men. You could earn some extra cash by taking in foreign students.
earn. [transitive] to get money for work that you do earn something He earns about $40,000 a year. She earned a living as a part-time bookkeeper. She must earn a fortune (= earn a lot of money). earn somebody something His victory in the tournament earned him $50,000.
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Etymology 1
From Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną. This verb is denominal from the noun *azaniz (“harvest”).
Etymology 2
Probably either: 1. from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or 2. a back-formation from earning (“(Britain...
Etymology 3
A variant of yearn.
Noun
earn 1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of ern (“eagle”)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle, large bird”). Cognate with Old Frisian *ern, Old Saxon *arn, Old Dutch *arn, Old High German arn, Old Norse ǫrn, Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌰 (ara); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”), Old Armenian որոր (oror, “gull”), Old Irish irar, Lithuanian erẽlis, Old Church Slavonic орьлъ (orĭlŭ).
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /æ͜ɑrn/, [æ͜ɑrˠn]
Noun
earn m 1. eagle
Etymology
From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.
Noun
earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje) 1. eagle 2. (figuratively) miser
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Employment, Finance earn /ɜːn $ ɜːrn/ S2 W2 verb 1 money for work [ intransitive, transitive] to receive a particular amount of money for the work that you do He earns nearly £20,000 a year. You don’t earn much money being a nurse. He did all sorts of jobs to earn a living.
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service: to earn one's living. to merit as compensation, as for service; deserve: to receive more than one has earned. to acquire through merit: to earn a reputation for honesty.
Define earn: to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered—usage, synonyms, more.
