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earn S2 W2 /ɜːn $ ɜːrn/ verb
[Word Family: noun: earner, earnings; verb: earn; adjective: earned ≠ unearned]
[Language : Old English; Origin : earnian]
1. MONEY FOR WORK [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]to receive a particular amount of money for the work that you do:
　 ▪ He earns nearly £20,000 a year.
　 ▪ You don’t earn much money being a nurse.
　 ▪ He did all sorts of jobs to earn a living.
　 ▪ I was the only person in the house who was earning.
　 ▪ She was earning good money at the bank.
　 ▪ Chris will pay – he’s earning a fortune.

2. PROFIT [TRANSITIVE]to make a profit from business or from putting money in a bank etc:
　 ▪ The movie earned £7 million on its first day.
　 ▪ You could earn a higher rate of interest elsewhere.

3. SOMETHING DESERVED [TRANSITIVE]
a) to do something or have qualities that make you deserve something:
　 ▪ I think you’ve earned a rest.
　 ▪ He soon earned the respect of the players.
　 ▪ He hopes to earn a place in the team.
　 ▪ The company has earned a reputation for reliability.
b) if your actions or qualities earn you something, they make you deserve to have it
earn somebody something
　 ▪ That performance earned her an Oscar as Best Actress.

4. earn your/its keep

a) to do jobs in return for being given a home and food:
　 ▪ We older children were expected to earn our keep.
b) to be useful enough to be worth the time or money spent:
　 ▪ These aircraft are still earning their keep.
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COLLOCATIONS
nouns
▪earn money
　 ▪ I’d like to earn more money than I do now.
▪earn a wage/salary
　 ▪ You are more likely to earn a decent wage if you have a degree.
▪earn a living (also earn your living) (=earn the money you need to live)
　 ▪ She started to earn a living by selling her jewellery on a market stall.
▪earn £30,000 a year/$200 a week/£5 an hour etc
　 ▪ Newly qualified teachers earn a minimum of £24,000 a year.
▪earn good money (=earn a lot of money)
　 ▪ You can earn good money working in London.
▪earn a fortune (=earn an extremely large amount of money)
　 ▪ Footballers at the top clubs earn a fortune these days.
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THESAURUS
▪earn to be paid a particular amount of money for your work. Earn is more formal than get or make :
　 ▪ A newly-qualified teacher can expect to earn about £20,000 a year.
▪get to earn a particular amount of money every hour, week etc :
　 ▪ How much do you get an hour?
　 ▪ She gets more than I do.
▪make to earn money, especially a lot of money, or money that is not from regular employment :
　 ▪ You can make a lot of money in banking.
　 ▪ Jo makes a bit of extra money by selling his paintings.
▪be on something British English to earn a particular amount of money each year. This is the most common way of talking about someone’s salary in British English :
　 ▪ How much are you on?
　 ▪ Some chief executives are on huge salaries.
▪be/get paid to receive money for work that you do for an employer, not by working for yourself :
　 ▪ Workers are paid around $500 a month.
　 ▪ I get paid monthly.
▪well-paid/badly-paid paid a lot of money/not much money for the work that you do :
　 ▪ well-paid lawyers working in the city
　 ▪ It was boring badly-paid work.
▪take home to earn a particular amount of money after tax etc has been taken away from your pay :
　 ▪ After tax and other deductions, I only take home £200 a week.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
earn a fortune
▪ He hopes to earn a fortune from his latest invention.
earn a livelihood
▪ It’s difficult to earn a livelihood as an artist.
earn a wage
▪ Both parents were earning a wage, yet money was still tight.
earn an honest living
▪ I’m just trying to earn an honest living.
earn sb's gratitude
▪ The useful service she performed raising money has earned our gratitude.
earn your keep (=do things in return for the things that are provided for you)
▪ It’s time you got a job and started earning your keep.
earn/be paid a pittance
▪ The musicians earn a pittance.
earn/get/receive a salary
▪ She’s now earning a good salary as an interpreter.
earn/make a living
▪ She was able to make a living out of her talents as a cook.
earn/win a reputation
▪ As a young publisher, she earned a reputation for toughness.
make/earn money
▪ She makes a little money by babysitting.
turn/earn a profit (=make a profit)
▪ Without the liquor sales, the store could not turn a profit.
win/earn/gain respect (=start to be respected)
▪ Morris eventually won the respect of his fellow workers.
win/earn/receive praise
▪ The trade deal won praise from the American business community.
win/receive/earn rave reviews
▪ The performance earned them rave reviews from critics.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
about
▪ The collapse of the kip means a mid-ranking civil servant now earns about $ 21 a month.
▪ In 1994, records show, he earned about $ 130, 000.
▪ Students who attended schools that regularly received and posted notices of job openings earned about $ 950 more than the annual average.
▪ Working conditions for adults, who earned about $ 3 a day, were also dangerous.
▪ Kruger was earning about $ 500, 000.
▪ I expect to earn about $ 60, 000 in each of the next three years.
▪ Assistant administrators earned about $ 32, 000.
▪ According to the plaintiffs' own arithmetic, Simpson could earn about $ 25 million over the course of his lifetime.
enough
▪ Few women earned enough to pay their own contribution.
▪ I was even earning enough to support myself in modest comfort.
▪ I earn enough to keep us both.
▪ Houses along the way had been freshly whitewashed, a sign that peasants were now earning enough to be concerned with appearances.
▪ It's not expensive to live here and I earn enough from my lessons to keep me going.
less
▪ In 1911 Bowley estimated that 2.5 m. adult men earned less than 25s. per week while working full-time.
▪ The new land would thus cost more to cultivate and earn less when harvested.
▪ Learn why you, the optimal high-tech mobile production unit, are earning less than your optimal reward.
▪ That came out to earning less than the mim. mum wage.
▪ Mme Keita probably earns less than I pay my watchman, yet she is skilled and well educated.
▪ Among computer buyers, the least penetrated group is households earning less than $ 30, 000 a year.
▪ It is the segregation of employment by gender which gives the best clues as to why women generally earn less than men.
▪ The portion rose to 71. 3 percent among those people earning less than $ 30, 000.
more
▪ There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands.
▪ White men with high school diplomas earn more than Hispanic women with college degrees.
▪ Subhadra said they earned more or less the same.
▪ To the surprise of even its makers, the film earned more than $ 70 million.
▪ The card is available only to home-owners earning more than Pounds 15,000 and with a telephone.
▪ Those who place more highly skilled or hard-to-find employees earn more.
▪ Wool combers, essential preparatory workers in the production of worsted yarn, earned more.
▪ In 1995, only 3 percent of people earning more than $ 100, 000 got audited.
NOUN
cents
▪ Analysts previously forecast 3M would earn 86 cents in the quarter.
▪ The regional telecommunications giant said it will earn 50 cents to 53 cents per share from operations in the first quarter.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ Analysts had expected Digital Link to earn about 19 cents a share for the fourth quarter, according to First Call.
▪ The company earned 44 cents a year earlier.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
▪ Mr Cohen added that he believes the company earned 51 cents or 52 cents a share in the fourth quarter.
company
▪ Only if the potential partner appears credible will the company earn a first meeting with eBay.
▪ By 1995 he wants the company to earn 20 percent of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.
▪ The company had earned $ 2. 3 million, or 43 cents a year earlier.
▪ Solomon believes the company earned $ 625 million, or 50 cents a share, in the quarter.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ The company earned $ 373 million, or 60 cents a share, in the fiscal second quarter a year earlier.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
credit
▪ Businesses focus on both sides of the balance sheet: spending and earning, debits and credits.
▪ But there are opportunities to build your resources relatively quickly by taking side missions to earn credits.
▪ If a Teamster fails to keep earning service credit, he can forfeit, or lose, all his prior service credit.
▪ In addition, she allegedly claimed an earned income credit of $ 323 on the basis of his fictional dependent.
▪ He earned a half credit in school.
▪ To liberals, it means closing loopholes for the rich and strengthening the earned income tax credit.
degree
▪ He also earned a law degree before changing his name from Margulois to Merrick and moving to New York in 1939.
▪ He earned a law degree in 1934, but he never practiced that kind of law at that kind of bar.
▪ And no more than one in twenty earned a college degree.
▪ One of my many dear children earned himself a creditable degree in environmental sciences a couple of years ago.
▪ Telbis-Preis went to college in the city of Timisoara and earned a structural engineering degree.
▪ Sachs got his degree in biology from Yale University and went on to earn degrees in medicine and film from Stanford University.
▪ Bhutto earned degrees at Harvard and Oxford.
dollar
▪ He had a patent and had earned millions of dollars in royalties.
▪ I earned barely ten thousand dollars a year, and James was still in college.
▪ For her latest film, Sliver, she has earned almost 3m dollars.
▪ Every day I earned approximately a dollar and a half.
▪ Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.
▪ It also lifts the yen-value of the money the exporters earn in dollars.
▪ Some governments of countries earning dollar surpluses supply Eurodollar deposits as a matter of policy.
▪ I was earning 4900 dollars a year teaching.
family
▪ Modern surveys have revealed the extent to which the public expects the Royal Family to earn its privileged position.
▪ Now the buildings are being renovated into 41 apartments, mainly for families earning less than $ 30, 000 a year.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ If the family earns $ 100, 000, the tax bill drops by 22 percent.
▪ His father was a rickshaw puller, so every penny the family had was laboriously earned.
▪ But that rate rises to one in six families among those earning less than $ 25, 000 a year.
▪ Sixty angry pickers, whose families have earned a living down the centuries, vowed to defend the 30-acre site.
▪ You can walk down the street, raise your family, earn a living.
income
▪ She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned.
▪ Doctors' incomes Doctors are generally earning less these days as managed care becomes a larger part of the medical marketplace.
▪ The emphasis of action taken in favour of DRAs must be to achieve permanent changes in income earning potential and social cohesion.
▪ But the men who are without work do miss the income they no longer earn.
▪ Part-time farming related to other income earning activities is concentrated in the DRAs.
▪ As in the 1920s, income from capital is rising compared with income earned from work.
▪ But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
interest
▪ All your accounts remain separate, but the amount of interest you earn is based on the family's total.
▪ This total is then divided by interest expense to obtain the times interest earned ratio.
▪ As the dividends are paid they can be reinvested, and hence interest can be earned.
▪ At the same time, the government lost millions in interest not earned while taxes, fees, and fines went uncollected.
▪ The manager executes the deals for a small annual fee - usually 0.5 percent deducted from the interest earned.
▪ It was certainly not a prohibition on lending money at a rate of interest which can be earned by the recipient.
▪ In between, you might receive a check twice annually for the interest earned on that bond.
job
▪ During the remainder of the evening I did small jobs to earn money for tobacco.
▪ Students who attended schools that regularly received and posted notices of job openings earned about $ 950 more than the annual average.
▪ He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes - but he knew this was just a dream.
▪ So to do your job, and earn your pay, you really have to be pressing all the time.
▪ After leaving school at 16, she took three part time jobs to earn money.
▪ I done my job, I earned this money, all this shit!
▪ I made them wash and iron and do certain cleaning jobs to earn their spending money.
▪ More than seventy have been placed permanently in private sector manufacturing jobs earning $ 9 to $ 10 per hour.
keep
▪ As the illustration above shows, even if you just use the Family Rail Card once, it will earn its keep.
▪ Go somewhere else, though, earn your own keep.
▪ Jonathon was earning his keep and so was Melanie, in the shop on her feet all day.
▪ The police earned their keep with arrests 20 percent up at 5,006, but figures highlighted a varying police approach.
▪ NatWest's subsidiaries will have to earn their keep while technology will be deployed to lift service levels.
▪ All are interesting shrubs which will earn their keep through the year.
▪ Certainly each of the six crab apples planted in my garden earn their keep in wildlife and ornamental terms.
livelihood
▪ Professionals and Amateurs About one-fifth of parochial directors of music earn their livelihood through music.
▪ To earn my livelihood as artist in Berne.
million
▪ Since 1991, when it lost $ 151 million, National has improved each year, earning $ 264 million in 1995.
▪ Solomon believes the company earned $ 625 million, or 50 cents a share, in the quarter.
▪ When Stride Rite was earning $ 100 million pretax, it was doing it by selling product that has since been abandoned.
▪ That earned Glaxo Wellcome 42 million rupees.
▪ Overseas, Chevron earned $ 251 million in its upstream operations, up $ 172 million from a year ago.
▪ The company earned $ 373 million, or 60 cents a share, in the fiscal second quarter a year earlier.
▪ Net-work anchors earn over a million dollars a year.
money
▪ They work all day and pay tax on the money they earn.
▪ He had quietly gathered all the money they had earned, everything Bill left, everything Charles had, and run away.
▪ The money you earn from twelve bags will pay the whole of what you owe.
▪ It also lifts the yen-value of the money the exporters earn in dollars.
▪ Equivalent sums would be credited to the enterprises' bank accounts, subject to verification that the money had been earned legally.
▪ Moreover, the money that is earned on those set-aside funds is tax-free to the employee until he receives it.
▪ The firm had been accused of illegally moving money around banks to earn interest from several accounts at once.
▪ True to its nature, California is considered the first to tax athletes for the money they earned while in-state.
nickname
▪ This powerful gift was gladly received and subsequently wielded effectively in many battles, earning Sigmar his nickname of Heldenhammer.
▪ Their flocks numbered in the thousands, earning them the nickname of migrating millionaires'.
▪ Bonefish's real name was Hector, but he had earned his nickname because of his uncanny ability to find the elusive fish.
▪ Stephen even earned the nickname Hawkeye.
pay
▪ So to do your job, and earn your pay, you really have to be pressing all the time.
▪ As a result, employees who now put in, say, four 10-hour days no longer would earn extra overtime pay.
percent
▪ Leading shares now earn just 6 percent gross and pay dividends of 4 percent.
▪ While Jeb Bush received a 56 percent grade, President Bush earned a 52 percent approval rating from respondents.
▪ Her money is spread over several different building society accounts earning her only 5.7 percent or £1,140 a year.
▪ Beginning around this time, Taylor had another sideline-his patented tennis net posts, from which he earned a 10 percent royalty.
▪ By 1995 he wants the company to earn 20 percent of its revenues from services such as consulting, software and management.
▪ Their female counterparts were earning 7. 7 percent less in 1995 than in 1989-13 percent less after correcting for inflation.
▪ With interest rates at their lowest level for 15 years, your savings could be earning only 3 percent interest.
place
▪ He will be hoping his performance will earn him a place in the 10-strong squad for New Zealand in January.
▪ Andrews again in 1978, and Nicklaus won again, the townspeople decided that he had earned his place in the pantheon.
▪ Victory would earn them a semi-final place against Surrey or Kent tomorrow.
▪ Cabbage has earned a secure place in the winter repast for its unpretentious, wholesome goodness and its versatility.
▪ He still has some way to go to earn a place in the golfing record books.
▪ They say downtown still has to prove itself, to earn its place as the living-working-playing capital of the county.
▪ And no one doubts that he has earned his place among the sport's leading players.
▪ Andrew, who has learning difficulties, is a keen violinist and has earned a place in Banks Brass Band.
praise
▪ It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
▪ Conversely, if a person expects that meeting deadlines will not earn praise, he or she may not be as motivated.
▪ Verio also earned praise for growing through its 4,000 reseller partners around the world.
▪ In college, he continued to excel, earning praise in the classroom almost as often as on the basketball court.
profit
▪ Members benefited from both the restricted entry and competition controls, allowing many of them to earn oligopolistic profits.
▪ Largely unregulated managed-care organizations earn outrageous profits.
▪ Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit.
▪ To make taffy, to advertise taffy, to provide employment, to earn a profit, to inspire Otto Rossler?
▪ I believe they offer every reason to earn you a profit during the winter months.
▪ And Liggett reportedly has earned little or no profit for each of the last several years.
▪ Cash is totally liquid, but earns no profit.
▪ Operating efficiency: measures of the efficiency with which corporate resources are employed to earn a profit. 4.
reputation
▪ Through lectures, articles, and letters, she earned a reputation as an expert on workhouses.
▪ A team captain, Gumina had earned a reputation for stiff defense, clutch play.
▪ He travelled widely in connection with the company's business and contributed many technical papers which earned him an international reputation.
▪ Columbia Valley, in Washington state, is earning a reputation for skillful blending and sound value.
▪ And it has earned Mr Welch a reputation for arrogance and ruthlessness that he finds embarrassing.
▪ In his years on the beat, Cowgill earned a reputation for fearlessness.
▪ He said he had earned an international reputation, particularly in his work on the transportation of dangerous chemicals.
▪ She eschews small fields and has earned a reputation for unearthing longshots in competitive races.
respect
▪ His instinct for identifying photographs that would seize the public's attention earned him the awed respect of professionals.
▪ In losing, though, she earned as much respect as any victory gained her.
▪ His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect.
▪ What she once considered oppressive about Joseph, his cold style and impenetrable attitude, now earned her respect.
▪ His courageous industry earned the respect, not only of his fellow Roman Catholics, but of Christians of all denominations.
▪ As a new manager, you had to earn their respect.
▪ Maybe they should be apart until they have earned the total respect of the rest of the cricketing world.
▪ Emslie earned great respect from all who knew her in those days.
return
▪ The decisions are commercial: what will earn the best return on the investment?
▪ On the other hand, cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank.
▪ Do/can we earn an adequate return for the risk involved? and is there a clearly identified ability to repay?
▪ Using your Isa allowance: You can put up to £7,000 in an ordinary Isa to earn tax-free returns.
▪ Over liquid banks will have money balances earning no return, so that profit opportunities are being lost.
▪ And for three years, it earned its return, every month.
▪ Indeed he now questioned if the United States itself had earned an adequate return from its investment in the special relationship.
▪ In the meantime, you are looking to earn a high return.
salary
▪ Now, just for once try and earn that over-inflated salary we pay you.
▪ Generally, building inspectors, including plan examiners, earn the highest salaries.
▪ I earn a 5 figure salary and have three houses.
▪ I, who was earning the only salary in the house and doing all the housekeeping, I should stop bothering him?
▪ You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile, so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result.
▪ Even the core group of 30 who are paid professionals earn salaries unlikely to inspire letters to the editor.
▪ I am 22, but I will not be able to earn my first salary until I reach 24.
share
▪ The younger generations of Tenants still earn their share of fame and, unfortunately, notoriety.
▪ The company earned 98 cents a share, below analysts forecast of $ 1. 11, according to Zacks Investment Research.
▪ This national income is divided among those individuals who actually earned a share of it.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
▪ The industrial manufacturing company earned 31 cents a share in its latest fourth quarter, compared with 37 cents a year ago.
▪ In the year-ago period, it earned 13 cents a share.
▪ Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
title
▪ This is the factor that earns falsificationists their title.
▪ Flanagan more than earns the title with some of his deeds.
▪ He earned this disputable title by his thoughtful approach to critical issues and the undeniable distinction of his critical practice.
▪ Elite performers earn that title because they are, by nature, not good losers.
▪ Triton roamed the shores raping anyone who took his fancy and earned himself the title Sea Satyr.
▪ Even on my own world there are only a few who earn the title of sei-sen - sword bearer.
wage
▪ Consequently, rather than earning a wage, they are likely to find themselves claiming a range of benefits, grants and allowances.
▪ It was what happened when young people earned decent wages, and had the means to buy clothes and go to discos.
▪ Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages.
▪ She was overjoyed to find she earned a much higher wage than for her factory work.
▪ But they did not earn a separate wage, they lived in effect in a mainly cashless society.
▪ I would do anything to earn a wage, however small - be a servant, even.
▪ Many workers, who had earned the princely wage of £3-£4 in jet's heyday, ended in the workhouse.
week
▪ Now he earns £75 a week as a filing clerk, lives with a cousin and attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
▪ If we all bring in cans for redemption, about how much money do you think we can earn in a week?
▪ He earned nearly £22 a week and lived in a bedsitter.
▪ He was a carpenter earning about £120 a week.
▪ How much did he earn in the fourth week?
▪ Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.
▪ As he will know, those in work who earn more than £15 a week lose £1 for every £1 that they earn.
▪ Imagine what it would be like to earn a million every week.
woman
▪ Last year she was Britain's highest-paid woman, earning £20.5m from her novels.
▪ Those are men and women earning $ 8 to $ 9 an hour, 20 hours a week.
▪ He didn't really approve of women earning a living, but the extra income would come in useful.
▪ But women earn only about three-fourths of the incomes earned by men, who still dominate the boardrooms and political power centers.
▪ But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.
▪ Yet, full-time working women still earned only 72 cents for each dollar a man earned in 1994.
▪ Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed.
▪ If we examine these data for gender differences, we see that at all levels women earn considerably less than men.
work
▪ The danger to those who earn their living from work in the United States may seem remote in the mid-1990s.
▪ They have earned their rest from work.
▪ Those who earn their living from work in the United States have been betrayed.
▪ It is earned through hard work and only through continued hard work and high standards can be retained.
▪ As in the 1920s, income from capital is rising compared with income earned from work.
▪ Leisure is no longer defined as something earned by work; work, rather, is to be made available by leisure.
▪ No other trend has worked more surely to betray those who earn their living from work.
worker
▪ Two-bedroom terraced properties are selling for £120,000-far beyond the means of most public-sector workers earning £20,000.
▪ Top performing hourly workers in 1988 could earn as much as $ 80, 000 in earnings including bonus.
▪ The article featured a group of nursery workers earning Pounds 2 an hour.
▪ Like the other outreach workers Saturday, Harris earned the princely sum of $ 24 for her hours of outreach.
▪ But as part-time, low-paid workers, the women earned very little.
▪ It is families who produce the workers who earn the salaries to pay the taxes that support the system.
▪ Oh, and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day ... These are sick jokes.
▪ Since young workers typically earn lower salaries, their greater numbers would be partially offset by their lower earnings.
year
▪ I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain.
▪ The company earned 44 cents a year earlier.
▪ Josie had told her that Matthew Mitchell earned thirty-three thousand a year.
▪ He will earn £54million this year, making him the highest-paid sportsman in the world.
▪ I was earning 4900 dollars a year teaching.
▪ A teacher at the pay threshold would earn £24,000 a year.
▪ Public school teachers earned $ 547 a year.
VERB
expect
▪ Analysts had expected Digital Link to earn about 19 cents a share for the fourth quarter, according to First Call.
▪ By selling its products and services, the workshop's expected to earn £300,000 this year.
▪ Analysts expected the company to earn 94 cents a share.
▪ One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem.
▪ I expect to earn about $ 60, 000 in each of the next three years.
▪ Analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research expected Northeast earned 56 cents in the 1995 fourth quarter.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
earn £20,000/$30,000 etc gross
earn/win your spurs
▪ But thanks to Sheila, now you don't have to go all the way to Dodge City to win your spurs.
▪ David had done absolutely nothing to earn his spurs when Samuel anointed him.
▪ Now he has won his spurs, he can afford to recognise mistakes like that without fearing loss of face.
▪ Pistoliers are young nobles who have yet to win their spurs and assume their rightful position as Knights of the Empire.
earning/purchasing/bargaining etc power
▪ At the same time the peso was devalued by 600 % and inflation soared over consumers' purchasing power declined.
▪ Dollars have less international purchasing power and more dollars have to be spent.
▪ In a competitive market the bargaining power of the owner of a particular commodity is limited.
▪ Pensions represent a transfer of resources in the form of purchasing power from current taxpayers or pension-fund contributors to past contributors.
▪ That reduces the real purchasing power of wages.
▪ The drop in inflation boosted purchasing power, he said.
▪ The goods became obtainable, but not purchasable, because of the lack of purchasing power among the population.
▪ The third category relates to private transactions, where an equality of bargaining power is usually to be presumed.
get/score/earn Brownie points
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alan earns $30,000 a year.
▪ At the peak of his career, Rogers was earning more than seven million dollars a year.
▪ Enjoy your vacation - you've earned it!
▪ Gail earned her place on the team by practicing hard.
▪ It's not uncommon nowadays for women to earn more than their husbands.
▪ Our finances look better if we include the profit earned on the sale of our London offices.
▪ The company earned $187 million in 1998.
▪ The Washington Post Company earned $187 million in 1987.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Belinda was three, and he had to earn some money.
▪ Growers characterize the upcoming battle as a fight for their right to earn a living.
▪ I've paid as I've earned.
▪ Instead they work to earn Trefoils.
▪ It was twice what he earned.
▪ Poors 500 Index and reinvested the dividends, he would have earned a healthy 37. 5 percent return.
▪ Singh had earned his prize with the shot that tied up this championship.
▪ The 1986 Tax Reform Act ended the differential taxation of earned income and capital gains.