Definition of Earn

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Definition of Earn

Earn

See Ern, n.

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).

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.

To grieve.

To long; to yearn.

To curdle, as milk.

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Earn Quotations

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
Joan Crawford

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
Joan Crawford

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump

Earn Translations

earn in Afrikaans is wen, verdien
earn in Danish is vinde, fortjene
earn in Dutch is behalen, verdienen, winnen
earn in Finnish is voittaa
earn in French is gagner, gagnons, gagnez, gagnent
earn in German is verdiene, verdienen
earn in Italian is guadagnare
earn in Latin is mereo mereor
earn in Portuguese is ganhe, ganhar
earn in Spanish is ganar

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