earn

• earn a living

  Somebody has to earn a living in this family.

• expect to earn

  Admittedly, he doesn't yet earn a fraction of the money a man of his age and experience would expect to earn outside, but he is on the way to the real big-time.

• earn less

  ‘When we grow more, we earn less.’

• i earn

• earn out

  The basis of calculating an earn out is generally the same as for completion accounts.

• opportunity to earn

  (c) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment, or to win money by betting.

• earn a little

  But, you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit.

• have to earn

  But, you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit.

• earn a wage

  In an office, 5 people earn a wage of £36 each, 3 earn a wage of £40 each and 2 earn a wage of £42 each.

• able to earn

  PAGE 3 girls apparently are feeling the chill and quite unable to earn the sort of mega money available to them a few years ago.

• earn their living

  Many of them usually earn their living by carrying out valuations on behalf of brewery companies.

• earn the right

  To know an object well is to earn the right to celebrate it.

• now earn

  It's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold for wages.

• need to earn

  Like any human being, I need to earn a living and I enjoy what I do.

• earn extra

  We married because I was pregnant, so the first years of our marriage were spent in a whirlwind of babies and evening jobs to earn extra money.

• work to earn

  I mean most people go out to work to earn money.

• earn money

  I mean most people go out to work to earn money.

• earn only

  Appeal to labour solidarity won't wash either when most of the labour force is non-unionized, many of whom earn only a pittance in the secondary labour market.

• earn above

  Secondly, unemployed people with temporary part-time jobs, who earn above the lower earnings limit, can no longer claim unemployment benefit.

• order to earn

  Many have taken part-time jobs in service industries in order to earn money while caring for their children.

• earn enough money

  (‘He wanted more to earn enough money to buy me a present,’ she said.)

• earn a place

  Each was set a target which had to be achieved to earn a place in a ‘super league’.

• people earn

  In an office, 5 people earn a wage of £36 each, 3 earn a wage of £40 each and 2 earn a wage of £42 each.

• earn a higher

  ‘A student whose education enables him later in life to earn a higher income should return some of that income.’

• earn more money

  Then I realised why comics earn more money than singers.

• earn up

  Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced.