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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
gross
/ɡɹəʊs/
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)