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Gross

Gross Meaning & Definition
Gross Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gross?

[n] the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
[n] twelve dozen
[adj] conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
[adj] conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
[adj] repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"
[adj] of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
[adj] visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
[adj] before any deductions; "gross income"
[v] earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

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unbearable | unclean | unconscionable | uncourtly | uncouth | uncultivated | uncultured | undeniable | undignified | unearned income | unequivocal | uneuphonious | unfelicitous | ungraceful | universal | unmentionable | unmitigated | unpolished | unqualified | unrefined | unrelieved | unseemly | unsophisticated | unspiritual | unspoiled | unteachable | unweeded | unwieldy | utter | vile | villainous | viscous | vulgar | wealth | weed-choked | weed-ridden | weedy | weighty | well-fed | whole | winnings | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched | wrongheaded | yield

See Also | box office | bring in | clear | earn | gain | gate | income | large integer | make | pull in | realise | realize | take in

Gross In Webster's Dictionary

\Gross\, a. [Compar. {Grosser}; superl. {Grossest}.] [F. gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E. crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened. Cf. {Engross}, {Grocer}, {Grogram}.] 1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. ``A gross fat man.'' --Shak. A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton. 2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate. 3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless. Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. --Milton. 4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure. The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next. --Macaulay. 5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium. 6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence. 7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to {net.} {Gross adventure} (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship. {Gross average} (Law), that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called {general average}. --Bouvier. --Burrill. {Gross receipts}, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. --Abbott. {Gross weight} the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from {neat, or net, weight}.
\Gross\, n. [F. gros (in sense 1), grosse (in sense 2). See {Gross}, a.] 1. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass. ``The gross of the enemy.'' --Addison. For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle. --Burke. 2. sing. & pl. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens. {Advowson in gross} (Law), an advowson belonging to a person, and not to a manor. {A great gross}, twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen. {By the gross}, by the quantity; at wholesale. {Common in gross}. (Law) See under {Common}, n. {In the gross}, {In gross}, in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.

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