earn

1. Earn on some commercial or business transaction;
   Earn as salary or wages (synset 202294200)
   "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"
   is a type of: acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
   subtypes:

   • eke out, squeeze out - make by laborious and precarious means
   • profit, turn a profit - make a profit; gain money or materially
   • rake off - take money from an illegal transaction
   • bring home, take home - earn as a salary or wage
   • rake in, shovel in - earn large sums of money
   • gross - earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
   • bear, pay, yield - bring in
   same as: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in
   verb group:

   • make - act in a certain way so as to acquire
   • clear, net, sack, sack up - make as a net profit
2. Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions (synset 202295101)
   "its beauty won Paris the name 'City of Lights'"
   is a type of: acquire, get - come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
   subtypes: letter - win an athletic letter
   same as: garner, win

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