earn

Definitions


[əːn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- obtain (money) in return for labour or services
(e.g: I earned £10 an hour working in the shop)


Phrases:
- earn one's corn
- earn one's keep

Origin:
Old English earnian, of West Germanic origin, from a base shared by Old English esne ‘labourer’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries