"സമ്പാദിക്കുക" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം പണമോ അംഗീകാരമോ ജോലിയ്ക്കോ നേട്ടത്തിനോ ഉള്ള പ്രതിഫലം എന്നിവ നേടുക എന്നതാണ്. ബഹുമാനം അല്ലെങ്കിൽ വിശ്വാസം സമ്പാദിക്കുക പോലുള്ള പ്രയത്നത്തിലൂടെയോ പ്രവർത്തനത്തിലൂടെയോ നേടിയെടുക്കുക അല്ലെങ്കിൽ അർഹിക്കുക എന്നും അർത്ഥമാക്കാം.
1. I tried to explain that I was hearing voices in my head to the doctors, but I quickly realized that would earn me a permanent stay in the loony bin.
2. A job to earn money was important, but not as important as my real job.
3. Crying was one of the easiest ways to earn a brutal punishment at the estate, and I had learned that lesson early.
4. He kept going, the latent Shadowstalker skills coming back as he tried to keep up, feet flying across the rough earth as he found gaps and tiny openings to earn just a few seconds and stay on the kid.
5. Thy constant labour let it be To earn thyself an honest name, For fooleries preserved in print Are perpetuity of shame.
6. Wishing there was something, anything, she could do to bring back the kind, sensitive man who had worked hard to earn her affections over the past few weeks.
7. I never really did anything to earn your love until this last short time together, and that was only because I knew I was losing you.
8. Dixon, a young man, rich and agreeable, almost as soon as they were acquainted and was eligibly and happily settled, while Jane Fairfax had yet her bread to earn.
9. Should you choose to remain bullies, only picking on those younger and smaller than yourselves, you will never earn the respect of another person.
10. Or someone so greedy for power and magic that he or she was willing to overlook the hideous things necessary to earn it.