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Definition of Earns
1. earn [v] - See also: earn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earns
Literary usage of Earns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Werner Arithmetic, Oral and Written, Book Two, Parts I and II by Frank H. Hall (1896)
"Ira earns 80 cents a day; Ernest earns 25 % more than Ira; Ernest earns a day.
... Peter earns $60 a month; this is 25 % more than Paul earns; Paul earns a ..."
2. The Child Labor Bulletin by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) (1915)
"Some of the children under 13 now at work Melton -, aged 11, has worked about 1
year, earns 33§ cents a day. Lloyd - —, aged 10, has worked 9 months, ..."
3. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves by George Washington Williams (1883)
"THE NEGRO TROVES HIMSELF INDUSTRIOUS AND earns PROMOTION. THE light began to
break through the dark .cloud of prejudice ..."
4. Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868)
"... ing—earns an Education Twice Over—Forms n Debuting Society—Makes Sixty Speeches
for Harrison—Enters into Political Life on the Working-Men's Side—Helps ..."
5. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"... —Mr. Sutherland Edwards—Charles Dickens and Punch—Sothern earns his
Dinner—Reconciliation of Dickens and Mark Lemon—JL Hannay —Cuthbert Bede. ..."
6. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"Banishment of the poet Ovid.—Disaster of Varus in Germany.—Consternation in the
city.— Tiberius resumes the command on the Rhine and earns a triumph. ..."