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.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.