well earned

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to receive or be given something
getI got a new bike for my birthday.
receiveYou will receive your tickets by email.
obtainAfter many years of trying, she finally obtained Brazilian citizenship.
gainYou will improve at the job as you gain experience.
earnEventually, you will earn the dog's trust.
achieveShe achieved top marks in the physics exam.
As a personal trainer to the rich and famous, he earns over a million dollars a year.他做富人和名流的私人教练一年挣100多万美元。
He earns a bit of extra pocket money by babysitting.
Many people are more interested in job satisfaction than in earning large amounts of money.与赚大把的钱相比，许多人更重视工作给予他们的满足感。
A person's gross income is the money they earn before tax is deducted from it.个人总收入是指税前的收入总和。
You should put the money in a savings account where it will earn interest.你应该把钱存在有利息的储蓄户头上。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Earning money
assessable
bank
base pay
basic
basic income
disposable income
hand over fistidiom
in arrearsidiom
killing
make an honest livingidiom
performance-related
pro bono
pro rata
profit from something
prorate
pull
raise
retainer
revenue
sick pay

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Getting, receiving and accepting

earn | American Dictionary

earn
verb[ T ]
us/ɜrn/
to receive money as payment for work that you do, or to get something that you deserve because of your abilities or actions:
[ T ]This month’s raise means that I’ll be earning $45,000 a year.
[ T ]After all the work I’ve done, I’ve earned a vacation.

earn | Business English

earn
verb
uk /ɜːn/us
[ I or T ]
to receive money as payment for work that you do:
How much do you earn?
When I started earning, I decided to open a savings account.
earn a salary/a wage/an incomeA typical manager will earn a salary of at least $69,000.
Brokers earn commission on each sale.
earn sb sthShe turned down an advert that would have earned her £1 million.
[ T ]
to make a particular amount of money from a product or business activity:
His last three films have earned more than $437 million worldwide.
In 1994, BBA earned pretax profit of 84.3 million pounds.
earn sth from sthThe region earns billions of dollars from tourism.
[ T ]
to get an amount of money as profit or interest on an investment or loan:
You can buy and sell these unit trusts when you choose, and you earn dividends.
Any spare cash is best put in a savings account where it will earn interest.
Local governments use the fund as a money-market account to earn interest on surplus cash.
[ T ]
to collect a reward for doing business with a particular company or for a particular activity. You can use these rewards to buy goods or get some other advantage:
Apply now to start earning loyalty points
Organizations can earn carbon credits by registering an energy saving project.
 earn a living(alsoearn your living)
to be paid the money that you need to live on:
He earns a living as a self-employed consultant.

Examples of earn

earn
Identification of outliers provides insights about the characteristics of retirees who earned large amounts of deferred compensation.
However, these arrangements pose a problem for women, who are likely to have worked and contributed for fewer years and earned lower wages when working.
One can, to some extent, translate the above analysis of earned and unearned income into an evaluation of types of tax.
The subject, immediately before entering the experimental room, was paid a flat 250, unrelated to the number of chips earned.
Taxes on income or land, in particular for rural-based economies, can be thought of as earned.
Figure 2 shows bankruptcy fees earned by lawyers; fees increased by a factor of five over the decade.
Each additional representative a region had per million inhabitants earned it on average an extra 72,000 roubles per capita in net transfers.
The showman explained that twenty years ago he collected five pounds a week on average, earning seven or eight shillings from each street performance.
As a result urban workers could purchase goods, though they were usually foreign made ; rural people, meanwhile, rarely earned enough to purchase more than food.#!
Women tend now to be seen both as primary carers and as individuals responsible for earning for themselves, their children and their own pensions.
At night, the maestro (who also worked as hornero) earned 10 soles, his ayudante 4.7 soles, and the operarios merely 4.20 soles.
The experience of these young women emphasizes that earning potential and household need shaped historically specific gender and generational roles.
He also earned himself a reputation for ' moderation ', which increased his usefulness in confrontations with the crown.
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.
At the same time, the gap in income between the lowest and highest earning households has increased since 1968.
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