earnverb [ I or T ]
uk/ɜːn/us/ɝːn/A2 to receive money as payment for work that you do:
I earn $80,000 a year.
How much do you earn, if you don't mind me asking?
You can't expect to earn a living (= be paid enough money to live on) from your painting.
[ + two objects ] Coffee exports earn (= give) Brazil many millions of dollars a year./Brazil earns many millions of dollars a year from coffee exports.
C2 to get something that you deserve:
It's been a tough six months and I feel I've earned a few weeks off.
See also
well earned
More examples
- As a personal trainer to the rich and famous, he earns over a million dollars a year.
- He earns a bit of extra pocket money by babysitting.
- Many people are more interested in job satisfaction than in earning large amounts of money.
- A person's gross income is the money they earn before tax is deducted from it.
- You should put the money in a savings account where it will earn interest.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Earning money
- bank
- base pay
- be quids in idiom
- black money
- blast
- bread
- bread and butter
- breadwinner
- bring sth in
- commission
- danger money
- draw
- fundraiser
- honorarium
- hustle
- income
- money for old rope idiom
- payday
- strike pay
- venal
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