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