0 present participle of earn
1 to receive money as payment for work that you do:
I earn $80,000 a year.
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.
It's been a tough six months and I feel I've earned a few weeks off.
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.
The showman explained that twenty years ago he collected five pounds a week on average, earning seven or eight shillings from each street performance.
Women tend now to be seen both as primary carers and as individuals responsible for earning for themselves, their children and their own pensions.
The experience of these young women emphasizes that earning potential and household need shaped historically specific gender and generational roles.
