gain
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(verb) increase (one's body weight) |
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Synonyms: put on |
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Related Words: change state, fill out, pack on, round, turn |
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Antonyms: reduce |
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(verb) increase in; "gain momentum"; "gain nerve" |
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Related Words: increase |
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(verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground" |
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Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, win |
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Related Words: hit, rack up, score, steal, tally |
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Antonyms: fall back |
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(verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?" "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" |
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Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realize, take in |
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Related Words: acquire, bear, bring home, eke out, get, gross, pay, profit, rake in, rake off, shovel in, squeeze out, take home, yield |
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(noun) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating |
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Related Words: amount, amount of money, financial gain, sum, sum of money |
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Antonyms: loss |
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(verb) rise in rate or price; "The stock market gained 24 points today" |
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Synonyms: advance |
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Related Words: climb, go up, rise |
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(verb) win something through one's efforts |
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Synonyms: win |
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Related Words: acquire, cozen, get |
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(verb) derive benefit from |
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Synonyms: benefit, profit |
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Related Words: acquire, capitalize, cash in on, clear, get, net, profiteer, pyramid, sack, sack up, take advantage |
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(verb) obtain: "derive pleasure from one's garden" |
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Synonyms: derive |
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Related Words: draw, obtain, reap |
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(noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input |
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Synonyms: amplification |
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Related Words: increase, increment |
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(noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial |
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Synonyms: profit |
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Related Words: account, advantage, profitability, profitableness, vantage |
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(noun) a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" |
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Synonyms: addition, increase |
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Related Words: indefinite quantity |
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(verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" |
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Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach |
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Related Words: access, bottom out, breast, catch up, come through, culminate, find, get at, get through, ground, make, peak, reach a peak, run aground, scale, surmount |
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