realise

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
  2. verb convert into cash; of goods and property
  3. verb expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass

Etymology

From real + -ise, possibly from French réaliser and Middle French réaliser (“to make real; to convert (something) into assets or cash”). See realize.

In classic literature

Synonyms

gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, pull in, bring in

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