Earn

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
earn
    v 1: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as
         salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new
         job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger
         brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"
         [syn: {gain}, {take in}, {clear}, {make}, {earn},
         {realize}, {realise}, {pull in}, {bring in}]
    2: acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions [syn: {earn},
       {garner}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Earn \Earn\ ([~e]rn), v. t. & i. [See 1st {Yearn}.]
   To grieve. [Obs.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Earn \Earn\, v. i. [See 4th {Yearn}.]
   To long; to yearn. [Obs.]
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         And ever as he rode, his heart did earn
         To prove his puissance in battle brave.  --Spenser.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Earn \Earn\, v. i. [AS. irnan to run. [root]11. See {Rennet},
   and cf. {Yearnings}.]
   To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Earn \Earn\ ([~e]rn), n. (Zo["o]l.)
   See {Ern}, n. --Sir W. Scott.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Earn \Earn\ ([~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Earned} ([~e]rnd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Earning}.] [AS. earnian; akin to OHG. arn[=o]n
   to reap, aran harvest, G. ernte, Goth. asans harvest, asneis
   hireling, AS. esne; cf. Icel. ["o]nn working season, work.]
   1. To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that
      which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is
      received or not).
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            The high repute
            Which he through hazard huge must earn. --Milton.
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   2. To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve
      and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good
      living; to earn honors or laurels.
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            I earn that [what] I eat.             --Shak.
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            The bread I have earned by the hazard of my life or
            the sweat of my brow.                 --Burke.
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   {Earned run} (Baseball), a run which is made without the
      assistance of errors on the opposing side.

   Syn: See {Obtain}.
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
EARN

   <networking> {European Academic and Research
   Network}.

   (1995-11-15)
from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
EARN
       European Academic Research Network (network)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "earn":
      acquire, attain, bag, be deserving, be entitled to, be paid,
      be remunerated, be salaried, be seized of, be worthy of, bring in,
      capture, catch, clear, collect, come by, come in for, come into,
      contract, corral, derive, deserve, drag down, draw, draw down,
      draw wages, effect, enter into possession, gain, get,
      get an income, gross, harvest, knock down, make, merit, net,
      obtain, pocket, procure, pull down, rate, realize, reap, receive,
      sack, score, secure, take, warrant, win, work for wages
antiflux / dictionary / Earn
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