earnedadj.
/əːnd/, /əːnt/, U.S. /ərnd/, /ərnt/ 1. Received or obtained in exchange for work, effort, etc.; deserved, merited.Frequently with modifying adverb, as dearly-earned. See also well-earned adj., hard-earned adj. at hard adv. Compounds 1c(b).
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [adjective] > that is due > deserved
wurthe?c1225
condign1413
meritory1523
meritorious1535
deserved1552
just1553
earned1559
merited1593
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Plantagenet f. lxxvi Good Earle Thomas hayer, Whose earned prayses never shal appaire.
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 407 Seated in his owned, and earned Throne.
1691 W. Wollaston Design Part of Bk. Ecclesiastes 140 This..oft bereaves men of all their dearly earned gains.
?1744 J. Bradshaw Scheme to prevent Running Irish Wools to France 12 The earned Money of the Poor of that Country, in working up the yearly Produce, will amount to £1,152,000.
1799 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Pizarro (ed. 2) iv. xiv. 76 What a dearly-earned prize is victory!
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 75 The well earned promotion.
1909 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 1/4 The manipulation of their promotion sheets, with the object of postponing the payment of justly earned increased salaries, was one of the grievances of the strikers.
1947 I. J. Pitman in E. Barker Char. of Eng. xxii. 453 That pheasant..will give the shooter more joy in his earned indemnity than will be given by the neat dispatch of some high and curly rocketer.
1982 F. Pohl Starburst i. 2 Among the eight of them they had nineteen earned and seven honorary degrees.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 3 Sept. v. 7/6 Treat the ‘found money’ with the same respect as earned money and you'll be happier with your spending decisions.
2. Baseball. Of a run: scored without an error being made by the fielding side.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [adjective] > types of run
earned1871
1871 N.Y. Herald 6 June 3/4 The next inning witnessed the scoring by the Chicagos of two more earned runs.
1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 21 June 8/4 In the fifth Farrell's two-baser,..and Walker's fumbled grounder gave the Champions two earned runs.
1923 Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide 191 Opponents scored 3.32 earned runs per game off ‘Bullet Joe's’ ‘fork ball’ delivery.
1987 First Base Summer 13/2 A pitcher is charged with an earned run if he was responsible for putting the runner who scores it on base.
2004 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 June iii. 8/2 The senior right-hander didn't allow an earned run.
Compounds
earned income n. income derived from paid work, esp. as contrasted with one derived from property, interest payments, etc.; an instance of this; cf. unearned income n. at unearned adj. 2c.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > derived from work or office
juicea1544
earnings1581
perquisite1712
earned income1861
1861 Daily News 7 Sept. 4/2 To it [sc. the law] the earned income..and the produced income..are the same.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 11/2 Unearned incomes should be taxed before earned incomes.
1915 Daily Graphic 9 Dec. 2/4 Examples of the tax for those with earned and unearned incomes up to £2,000.
1996 W. Hutton State we're In (rev. ed.) vii. 170 The most important motor of division was the evolution of people's earned and unearned income before taxes.
2009 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 17/3 Receiving a windfall of cash causes cognitive dissonance that is alleviated only when the tainted money comes to feel as deserved as earned income.
earned run average n. Baseball a statistical measure of a pitcher's performance, calculated by dividing the number of earned runs scored against the pitcher by the number of innings pitched, and multiplying by nine; abbreviated ERA n. at E n.1 Initialisms.The measure as currently calculated was first adopted as an official statistic by the National League in 1912.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > statistical measure of pitcher's performance
earned run average1892
1892 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 8 Feb. 8/3 Ed Crane, who pitched 25 games for Cincinnati, was hit safely 183 times, gave 102 bases on balls, and has an earned run average of .041.
1916 Boston Daily Globe 27 Nov. 7/6 Schupp, who was last in 1915 pitchers' percentages, with an earned run average of 3.07 is first in 1916, with .090, or less than one run per nine-inning game.
1975 New Yorker 23 June 46/2 At contract-renewal time, earned-run averages below 3.30 are invariably mentioned by pitchers; an E.R.A. close to or above the 4.00 level will always be brought up by management.
2003 M. Lewis Moneyball x. 240 They'd seen one too many guys with a low earned run average in Triple-A who flamed out in the big leagues.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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