Earn
Earn verb - To receive as return for effort.
Transfer
Transfer verb - To cause to go or be taken from one place to another.
Usage example: will have to transfer you from our San Francisco office to our New York headquarters
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In order to earn the special items to get the toy's secret characters, the player needs to visit the Tamatown website, earn points, buy the items, and transfer it to their toy.
Source: Video Game / Tamagotchi -
Still, you can't transfer unrefined dilithium between characters, so that means you have to spend the time to earn 8000 dilithium per character if you want to reach the full cap.
Source: Video Game / Star Trek Online -
Increasing the budget is also controversial: trying to transfer to defense funds usually for health and education earn the ire of the Philippine Left, not to mention that the funds are usually tainted by corruption, anyway.
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