Usually means: Receives money for work done.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word earns:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. earns: Merriam-Webster
  2. earns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. earns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Earns, earns: Wordnik
  5. earns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. earns: Wiktionary
  7. earns: Dictionary.com
  8. earns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. earns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earns: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earns: Encyclopedia

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  1. earns: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (EARN)

verb:  (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
verb:  (transitive) To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).
verb:  (intransitive) To receive payment for work.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
verb:  (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.
noun:  A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which flows into the tidal River Tay.
noun:  Alternative form of erne [A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)]
noun:  Initialism of European Academic and Research Network: a former computer network connecting universities and research institutions across Europe.
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