0 past simple and past 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.
Taxes on income or land, in particular for rural-based economies, can be thought of as earned.
Figure 2 shows bankruptcy fees earned by lawyers; fees increased by a factor of five over the decade.
Each additional representative a region had per million inhabitants earned it on average an extra 72,000 roubles per capita in net transfers.
