earn

verb9

1. •
   to be paid for the work that someone does or the job that they have

   • He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO.
   • My bank account is only earning one percent interest.
2. •
   To receive payment for work.

   • Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent.
3. •
   To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

   • You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well.
   • With their hard work and dedication, they earned respect and a seat at the table.
4. •
   To achieve by being worthy of.
5. •
   To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

   • My CD earns me six percent!
   • In that era, all their long, hard, dangerous labor in the mines barely earned them even enough to eat!
6. •
   (dialect, no longer used) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
7. •
   (dialect, no longer used) Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
8. •
   (no longer used) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).

   • And ever as he rode, his hart did earne / To prove his puissance in battell brave. — 1590
9. •
   (no longer used) To grieve.

   • [M]y manly heart doth erne. […] Boy, brissle thy Courage vp: For Falstaffe hee is dead, and wee must erne therefore. — 1599