Definition of earn a living
:to earn the money needed for food, clothing, etc.
- She's just trying to earn a living.
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: to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered
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: to bring in by way of return
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: to come to be duly worthy of or entitled or suited to
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: grieve
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: having life
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: active, functioning
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: exhibiting the life or motion of nature : natural
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: the condition of being alive
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: means of subsistence : livelihood
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: estate, property
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