0 past simple and past participle of earn --
1 to receive money as payment for work that you do: --
It's been a tough six months and I feel I've earned a few weeks off.
[ + two objects ] Coffee exports earn (= give) Brazil many millions of dollars a year./Brazil earns many millions of dollars a year from coffee exports.
You can't expect to earn a living (= be paid enough money to live on) from your painting.
I earn $80,000 a year.
It was applied first to income earned in 1991.
The comparison of the long-run performance of the rational and boundedly rational agents shows little difference in terms of the average utilities earned over time.
The results show that, overall, the difference between utilities earned by rational and boundedly rational agents is small.
Consequently, it is probable that the total income earned by super-hunter households from production activities is under-estimated.
Their profits depend on this spread and the size of the premium on which it is earned.
Democratic legitimacy, in this sense, has to be earned.
Three is the minimum number of ages needed for changing the differential between the ages at which the average income is earned and consumed.
Very crudely, the egalitarian will have to tax and redistribute earned incomes in some form in order to correct for the residual inequality of talents.
