EARN

Pronunciation (US):

• EARN (verb)
  The verb EARN has 2 senses:

1. earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
2. acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

  Familiarity information: EARN used as a verb is rare.

• EARN (verb)

Meaning:

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

realise; earn; bring in; pull in; realize; gain; make; take in; clear

Context examples:

How much do you make a month in your new job? / She earns a lot in her new job / this merger brought in lots of money / He clears $5,000 each month

Hypernyms (to "earn" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "earn"):

eke out; squeeze out (make by laborious and precarious means)

profit; turn a profit (make a profit; gain money or materially)

rake off (take money from an illegal transaction)

bring home; take home (earn as a salary or wage)

rake in; shovel in (earn large sums of money)

gross (earn before taxes, expenses, etc.)

bear; pay; yield (bring in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They earn the money

Meaning:

Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

garner; earn

Hypernyms (to "earn" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "earn"):

letter (win an athletic letter)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something