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earn

[ US /ˈɝn/ ]
[ UK /ˈɜːn/ ]
VERB
  1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
    this merger brought in lots of money
    How much do you make a month in your new job?
    He clears $5,000 each month
    She earns a lot in her new job
  2. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
    its beauty won Paris the name 'City of Lights'

How To Use earn In A Sentence

  • It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
  • I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
  • You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a few months.
  • We learn a little more about how interconnected the world is. Times, Sunday Times
  • It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
  • I had a sirloin steak, with béarnaise and frites, which they contrarily call chips, and a bit of salad. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
  • A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
  • I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
  • Young barristers undertaking publicly funded work frequently earn very little in their first years. Times, Sunday Times
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