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  • 31earn — /ɜn / (say ern) verb (t) (earned or earnt, earning) 1. to gain by labour or service: to earn one s living. 2. to merit, as for service; deserve: to receive more than one has earned. 3. to get as one s desert or due: to earn a reputation for… …

  • 32earn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. work for, gain, win; deserve, merit, rate; make a living, be gainfully employed. See acquisition, justice. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To deserve as reward] Syn. win, merit, gain; see deserve . 2. [To… …

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  • 33earn*/*/ — [ɜːn] verb 1) [I/T] to receive money for work that you do Most people here earn about £30, 000 a year.[/ex] She earns a good living as a financial adviser (= she gets a good salary).[/ex] 2) [T] to make a profit from business or from money that… …

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  • 34earn — v.tr. 1 (also absol.) a (of a person) obtain (income) in the form of money in return for labour or services (earn a weekly wage; happy to be earning at last). b (of capital invested) bring in as interest or profit. 2 a deserve; be entitled to;… …

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  • 35Earn — earning: made a nice little earn from it …

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  • 36earn — I Australian Slang earning: made a nice little earn from it II Cleveland Dialect List (pronounced [yearn]) to curdle milk or cause it to coagulate …

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  • 37EARN — Abk. für European Academic Research Network; von IBM unterstütztes, geschlossenes ⇡ Rechnernetz (⇡ geschlossenes Netz). Es verbindet fast alle europäischen Universitäten und bietet zusätzlich Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten mit nordamerikanischen und …

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  • 38earn — [OE] The underlying sense of earn is ‘gain as a result of one’s labour’. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic verb *aznōjan, which was based on the noun *aznu ‘work, labour’. This seems often to have been used specifically for ‘work in the… …

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  • 39Earn — Sp Èrnas Ap Earn L u. Jungtinėje Karalystėje (Škotijoje) …

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  • 40earn — [OE] The underlying sense of earn is ‘gain as a result of one’s labour’. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic verb *aznōjan, which was based on the noun *aznu ‘work, labour’. This seems often to have been used specifically for ‘work in the… …

    Word origins