earn
verb
[ əːn ]
• obtain (money) in return for labour or services.
• "I earned £10 an hour working in the shop"
Similar:
be paid,
receive a salary of,
take home,
take home earnings of,
gross,
receive,
get,
make,
obtain,
draw,
clear,
collect,
bring in,
pocket,
bank,
rake in,
pull in,
haul in,
net,
bag,
Opposite:
pay out,
Origin:
Old English earnian, of West Germanic origin, from a base shared by Old English esne ‘labourer’.
