Usually means: Receive money for work done.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word earn:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. earn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. earn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earn, earn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. earn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. earn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Earn, earn: Wordnik
  7. earn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. EARN, Earn, earn: Wiktionary
  9. earn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. earn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. earn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Earn, earn: Dictionary.com
  13. earn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. earn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EARN: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Earn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. earn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. earn: Rhymezone
  19. earn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. earn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. earn: Free Dictionary
  22. earn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. earn: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. earn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. earn: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. EARN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. EARN: Netlingo
  3. EARN: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. EARN: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. EARN: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. earn: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. earn, earn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Earn: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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