Buy vs. Earn — What's the Difference?

Obtain in exchange for payment

Obtain (money) in return for labour or services

Accept the truth of

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

A purchase

To acquire or deserve as a result of effort or action

To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. See Note at boughten.

To yield as return or profit

To be capable of purchasing

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

To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade

(transitive) To receive payment for work.

To bribe

(intransitive) To receive payment for work.

(Informal) To accept the truth or feasibility of

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

To purchase something; act as a purchaser.

(transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.

Something bought or for sale; a purchase.

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

An act of purchasing

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

Something that is underpriced; a bargain.

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

To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.

To grieve.

To obtain, especially by some sacrifice.

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 suffer consequences for (something) through being deprived of something; to pay for (something one has done).

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.

(transitive) To bribe.

To grieve.

(transitive) To be equivalent to in value.

To long; to yearn.

To accept as true; to believe

To curdle, as milk.

(intransitive) To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a drink, meal or gift)

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

To make a bluff, usually a large one.

Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

Something which is bought; a purchase.

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; - opposed to sell.

To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.

To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

An advantageous purchase;

Obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction;

Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence;

Acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange;

Accept as true;

Be worth or be capable of buying;