Attain vs. Earn — What's the Difference?

To gain as an objective; achieve

Obtain (money) in return for labour or services

To come to or arrive at, as through movement, growth, or the passage of time

To gain especially for the performance of service, labor, or work

To succeed in a directed effort, process, or progression

To acquire or deserve as a result of effort or action

(transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).

To yield as return or profit

(transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

(transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

(intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

(transitive) To receive payment for work.

To get at the knowledge of.

(intransitive) To receive payment for work.

To reach in excellence or degree.

(transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

To reach a person after being behind them.

(transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.

Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

To grieve.

To overtake.

To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).

To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.

To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

To grieve.

To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

To long; to yearn.

Attainment.

To curdle, as milk.

To gain with effort;

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages;

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;

Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

Find unexpectedly;

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;