gross
To earn money, not including expensesTo earn money, not including expenses.
Meaning
1 sensesTo earn money, not including expenses.
The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
Examples
100 sentencesOrigin
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from OlFrom Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
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Forms
grosses, grossing, grossed, grossedPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.