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to bring in

to bring in

123 2.8
Earn money from a thing or activity
  • phrasal verb
  • /brɪŋ ɪn/
translation icon : generar
  • Does he bring in customers?
  • bring in money
  • bring in income
  • bring in millions

Most women will respect their men more if their men are bringing in more money.

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Examples

  • Most women will respect their men more if their men are bringing in more money.

    Bedros Keuilian

  • Local media covered the event, successfully publicizing the new store and bringing in customers.

    Academic text (2012)

  • So it's like spend more money but bring in less revenue.

  • So we had the rest of the month just to just to bring in some extra funds.

  • We're spending way more money per year than we bring in in taxes.

    Dad Saves America

  • I also wanted your father to get a real job and bring in a salary.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • However, run as a business, it should be capable of bringing in a substantial income.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Greenpeace brings in close to $300 million a year, and what do they do with that money?

    END:CIV (2011)

  • According to one estimate, in its heyday, Storyville brought in profits of one million dollars a month.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The new advertising strategy is expected to bring in a lot more revenue this quarter.

Synonyms

to sell
vsto bring in
∞ 1.0

To give something to someone for money

also applies to earning or bringing in money beyond simple exchanges
to make
vsto bring in
∞ 1.3

To earn money from work or business

also applies to being sold for a specified amount or generating revenue
to pay
vsto bring in
  • Specialized
∞ 5.2

To give money as interest or profit

is broader, covering ordinary earnings, sales prices, and general money generation
to earn
vsto bring in
780 1.0

To get money for work you do or from a business

also includes income from sales or one-off amounts and value generation
to bring
vsto bring in
241 3.4

To sell for a certain amount of money

also covers earning or generating money as well as change of ownership for money
to realize
vsto bring in
  • Specialized
46 6.7

To turn things you own into money

is wider, also including regular earning or generating money not just conversion
to bring home
vsto bring in
38 3.3

To earn money regularly for your family

is more general, covering any earning, sale price, or money generation
to take in
vsto bring in
  • Informal
25 4.9

Earn money from work or sales

is the neutral term that also includes sales and specific price amounts
to fetch
vsto bring in
23 5.3

To sell for a particular price

also refers more broadly to earning or generating money beyond single sale events
to cash in
vsto bring in
21 3.7

Make money from something, often by using a good opportunity

is broader, also covering routine earning and being worth a certain amount
to pull in
vsto bring in
14 4.1

To earn money from work or business

is broader, also covering sales prices and one-time monetary amounts

How Much

to gross
  • Specialized
57 4.4
yield
257 4.1
to bring in
123 2.8
to earn
780 1.0
to sell
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bring in infinitive
bringing in present participle
brings in third person singular
brought in past
brought in past participle

Morphology

bring + in

There is a clear compositional link: 'bring' (to cause something to come) + 'in' (into, towards a bounded domain) suggests introducing or bringing something into view, so a learner could plausibly infer 'announce' or 'present'. However, the specific institutionalized legal sense 'to deliver a verdict' is a specialized, conventionalized usage of the phrasal verb that may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without exposure, and phrasal verbs often show cross-linguistic variation.

Etymology

Bring in comes from the idea of money being carried into a shop or business: sales bring in cash for the owner. So it means 'to earn' or 'to generate' money.