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US
/ˈɝn/
]
[ UK /ˈɜːn/ ]
[ UK /ˈɜːn/ ]
VERB
-
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 -
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.
- I am eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.
