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Definition of Earned

1. Adjective. Gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action. "An earned run in baseball"

Definition of Earned

1. Verb. (past of earn) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Earned

1. earn [v] - See also: earn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earned

Literary usage of Earned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"According to the 1913 Insurance Year Book the rate of interest earned on the ... Of the twenty-nine companies under consideration three earned an average ..."

2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"Give to the poet his well-earned praise, And the songs of his love, preserve them; Encircle his brows with fadeless bays, The children of genius deserve ..."

3. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori, Henry Wyman Holmes (1912)
"The " Children's House " is earned by the parents through the care of the building. Its expenses are met by the sum that the Association would have ..."

4. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"... as well as all the others, and to a shrewd favour of this kind from her the Great Captain won his fame, and many others earned an undying name. ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"It must be recollected that I am here speaking of the case of an abandonment, on a voyage in which freight has been earned. In cases of absolute total loss, ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"in 1903 two candidates earned the master's degree, and one, the doctor's degree, in Washington University, in which one candidate for the former and three ..."

7. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"In 1812 he entered into partnership with William Rollinson, a bank-note engraver, and having in a few years earned a competency, retired from business and ..."

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