Earn and Making money

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Earn verb - To receive as return for effort.

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Making money is an antonym for earn.

Nearby Words: earned, earning, earner

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Earn is an antonym for making money in profit topic.

They sleep in separate beds, their bedroom is described as a cold tomb, Mildred can't remember when she met Montag, and Mildred only cares about her TV family and Montag going out and making money to keep the house and earn enough to get a fourth TV wall.

Source: Literature / Fahrenheit 451
Another Discworld example; in Making Money Moist is told that "a certain kind of man will scheme for two days to earn what he could have made by honest work in one." Subverted by Moist reflecting that honest work may be more efficient, but scheming is more fun.

Source: Laborious Laziness

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