Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thoroughly de served; fully due on account of action or con duct: as, a well-earned punishment.
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- adjective
deserved
Etymologies
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Examples
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When employers keep the well-earned wages they take a working woman's opportunity to provide for her children.
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When employers keep the well-earned wages they take a working woman's opportunity to provide for her children.
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And before my husband and I took a well-earned nap, the three of us ate the most unusual breakfast—pieces of cake.
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Half-time: Craig Joubert brings first half proceedings to a close and the teams head off for a well-earned breather.
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Costco's well-earned reputation for treating its in-store employees well carries over to its warehouse.
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With Putin watching his back, Medvedev would be able to grow into his new office, allowing his predecessor to withdraw into the background for some well-earned rest and recreation.
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The European Forum for New Ideas where I also had been invited to speak, held concurrently in the nearby seaside resort town of Sopot bore witness to that success with over 900 business delegates from Poland joining in a well-earned festival of self congratulatory debate.
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The show needs to break its habit of using patients to reflect on the doctors, but in this case, the twist is interesting, well-earned and in some ways unexpected.
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My stepdaughter has finished her degree and after a well-earned (self-funded) holiday in Thailand, this week moved to London to look for a job.
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• And as the phone-hacking hearings continue, there is well-earned posthumous triumph for the News of the World, vindicated by convictions arising from Mazher Mahmood's exclusive about cricket match-fixing allegations.
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