re-earn
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What's the point in telling somebody that they now have a chance to go for a huge bonus when by scrolling the message slowly across the display the ball is already lost - meaning the bonus has to be re-earnt?"
- "It is the narcotic of the football itself that draws people in, makes them travel miles from home on wet nights, part with money that will have to be re-earnt at the workplace the next day."
- "Your culture used to know its job; now you're changing that job, and it has to relearn then re-earn its competence."
- "Trust can be re-earnt just as it can be destroyed."
- "The humble brand understands that it needs to re-earn attention, re-earn loyalty, and reconnect with its audience as if every day is the first day."
- "To do this, we understood that we had to earn and re-earn our hospitality reputation every day, one customer at a time, 50 million times a day."
Etymology
From re- + earn.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re