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

Examples of earned

earned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
Some associates have become full-time students and have earned their degrees, or are currently in the process of doing so.
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.
Three is the minimum number of ages needed for changing the differential between the ages at which the average income is earned and consumed.
Democratic legitimacy, in this sense, has to be earned.
Their profits depend on this spread and the size of the premium on which it is earned.
Consequently, it is probable that the total income earned by super-hunter households from production activities is under-estimated.
The results show that, overall, the difference between utilities earned by rational and boundedly rational agents is small.
The comparison of the long-run performance of the rational and boundedly rational agents shows little difference in terms of the average utilities earned over time.
It was applied first to income earned in 1991.
Like them, too, he nevertheless earned a place in the history books.
They usually worked for a few hours per day and earned low wages.
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