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gross

/ɡɹəʊs/

An illustration for gross

adjective1 of 3

total amount; extreme or unreasonable

  • “Cleaning fish can gross out a lot of people.”Tatoeba
  • “I wonder how a government would go about measuring gross national happiness.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

noun2 of 3

Twelve dozen = 144.

verb3 of 3

To earn money, not including expenses.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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