reearn

English

Etymology

re- +‎ earn

Verb

reearn (third-person singular simple present reearns, present participle reearning, simple past and past participle reearned)

1. To earn back something one has lost.
   • 1998, Marnie Jones, Holy Toledo: Religion and Politics in the Life of "Golden Rule" Jones:

     The pattern was first to isolate the child physically and emotionally when he experienced parental disapproval; second, to allow the child to reearn parental love by insisting that he comply unconditionally to the parents' will.

   • 2000, Bill Farrel, Pam Farrel, Love, Honor & Forgive: A Guide for Married Couples, →ISBN, page 128:

     Carl commented on the need he and Ginny had to reearn one another's trust through a series of successes.

   • 2004, William Longyard, A Speck on the Sea: Epic Voyages in the Most Improbable Vessels, →ISBN:

     When they paused to rest the wind immediately drove them backward, and they had to reearn the distance.

2. To repeat the process of earning; to renew one's status as deserving.
   • 2001, Lyle E. Schaller, What Have We Learned?: The Best Thinking on Congregational Life, →ISBN:

     One consequence is the need for those in positions of authority to recognize the necessity to earn, reearn, and reearn the trust of their constituency.

   • 2001, Impact of the Application of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 on Selected Industrial Sectors:

     Few, if any, companies will have to reearn a certificate from scratch.

   • 2014, Paul Feigenbaum, Collaborative Imagination: Earning Activism Through Literacy Education, →ISBN:

     Third, this example demonstrates that earning activism at one time is insufficient for sustaining progressive social change against the forces of rhetorical decay; progressives, that is, must not merely earn activism but also continually reearn it.

Alternative forms

• re-earn

Anagrams

• earner, nearer