What does gain mean

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gain

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

gain

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

achieve/obtain/gain statehood

▪ Utah obtained statehood in 1896.

acquire/achieve/gain/develop competence

▪ First you have to acquire competence in methods of research.

capital gains tax

capital gains

efficiency gains (=increases in efficiency)

▪ New technology introduced by the company has brought efficiency gains.

gain a seat (also take a seat from sb) (= win a seat from another party)

▪ At the next election the Republicans gained 12 seats in the Senate.

▪ Labour took over fifty seats from the Conservatives.

gain confidence (also grow/gain in confidence) (= become more confident)

▪ Paul did well in the job and gained a lot of confidence.

gain credence (=to become more widely accepted or believed)

▪ His ideas quickly gained credence among economists.

gain credibility

▪ It took many years for these ideas to gain credibility in the science community.

gain entry

▪ Burglars use various methods to gain entry to houses.

gain entry (=be allowed to take part)

▪ You need good exam results to gain entry to the best universities.

gain publicity

▪ Appearing on a chat show means you gain publicity.

gain strength

▪ After the operation, he spent several weeks relaxing and gaining strength.

gain/achieve mastery of sth

▪ He has definitely achieved mastery of this very difficult subject.

gain/achieve/win independence (=get independence)

▪ Our aim was to achieve full independence.

gain/draw strength from sb/sth

▪ He gained strength from being back with the people and things he loved.

gained admission

▪ Women gained admission to the club only recently.

gained ascendancy

▪ He slowly gained ascendancy in the group.

gained control of

▪ China gained control of the island in 1683.

gained...prestige

▪ This little-known British firm has now gained considerable prestige.

gained...toehold

▪ The company has gained a toehold in the competitive computer market.

gain/establish a foothold

▪ Extreme right-wing parties gained a foothold in the latest European elections.

gain/find acceptance

▪ This management style gained acceptance in the 1980s.

gain/gather/build up momentum (=become more and more successful)

▪ The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.

gain/gather/pick up speed (=go faster)

▪ The Mercedes was gradually picking up speed.

gain/get a purchase on sth

▪ The ice made it impossible to get a purchase on the road.

gain/get/develop an understanding

▪ Scientists continued to gain a greater understanding of the effects of radiation.

gain/grow/increase in popularity

▪ Extreme sports are growing in popularity.

Gaining admittance

▪ Gaining admittance to the club was no easy matter.

gain/lose height (=move higher or lower in the sky)

▪ The plane was rapidly losing height.

gain/win sb’s confidence

▪ As team captain, he soon won the confidence of the players.

gain/win/achieve notoriety (for sth)

▪ The local church has gained notoriety for being different.

get/gain a degree

▪ She worked hard and got a good degree.

get/gain an advantage

▪ Both teams tried to get an advantage.

get/gain an edge over sb/sth (=gain a small advantage over someone or something else)

▪ A well trained workforce is a key factor in gaining a competitive edge over our rivals.

get/gain experience

▪ He suggested that I should gain some experience in a related industry like travel.

get/gain power

▪ Women were trying to gain power in a male-dominated world.

get/gain/obtain a licence

▪ New private pilots must fly for at least fifty hours before getting their licences.

get/gain/receive a majority

▪ If no one gets an overall majority, the vote is repeated.

ill-gotten gains

stand to gain/lose/win/make

▪ What do firms think they stand to gain by merging?

weight gain

▪ The medication can cause rapid weight gain.

windfall gain/profit etc (=high profit that you did not expect to make)

win/earn/gain respect (=start to be respected)

▪ Morris eventually won the respect of his fellow workers.

win/gain fame

▪ He won fame when he appeared in the film ‘The Graduate’.

win/gain recognition

▪ The company has won recognition for its customer service.

win/gain/attract support

▪ Try to win the support of local shopkeepers.

win/obtain/gain/secure a concession

▪ In the end, the strikers returned to work having won few concessions.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

acceptance

▪ Even so, the idea gained complete acceptance only early this century.

▪ Unions, factory Inspection, the regulation of the hours of women and children had gained acceptance.

▪ It is the latter definition that is gaining the widest acceptance.

▪ What he said in 1 714, perhaps in jest, later gained acceptance as the perfect moniker for the marine timekeeper.

▪ In addition to this, every vision is surrounded by a kind of halo designed to gain its acceptance.

▪ He eventually gains acceptance, even though he never truly fits in.

▪ Its reputation in encouraging a variety of worthwhile activities will then gain increasing acceptance in the community.

▪ Birth control advocates began to think they could gain more public acceptance on their own.

access

▪ The firm may be market-seeking, in the sense that it wishes to gain access to more customers and consumers.

▪ Network programs that involve remote file transfer are especially susceptible to eavesdroppers gaining access to the contents of files.

▪ To destroy the cottage in order to gain access to the road was desirable.

▪ To gain access to Clinton, you have to give him hundreds of thousands of dollars and drink lousy Yuban.

▪ There is no evidence that the intruder gained access to the source code for Office or any Windows products.

▪ You gain access to those 4 million square miles, and you gain access to tremendous natural resources.

▪ It was under the old law if done in pursuance of the ulterior intent, not if done simply to gain access.

▪ Soviet leaders unsuccessfully attempted to gain greater access to Yugoslav facilities in 1976.

advantage

▪ Salary caps are imposed to prevent richer clubs gaining an unfair advantage over poorer rivals by offering players vastly inflated salaries.

▪ At first capital only gained advantage in relation to labor and may even have lost some ground to the state.

▪ Large numbers of people have gained the advantages of acquiring different forms of capital, be they houses or shares.

▪ Swift action is needed, not just to gain the advantage, but as a necessity.

▪ We may be fed up with the machinations of elected officials who are obsessed with gaining political advantage over one another.

▪ Those firms within the Community which employ labour illicitly will reduce their labour costs and gain a competitive advantage in production.

▪ Neither was ever able to gain any decided advantage.

approval

▪ Dartington had to change its course considerably in order to gain approval.

▪ Crop Revenue Coverage is the first privately developed alternative crop insurance to gain approval from the Agriculture Department, the company said.

▪ In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval.

▪ He or she must gain approval from others, outside formal authority channels, to implement a staff project.

▪ A proposal by the opposition Labour Party for a more extensive package failed to gain parliamentary approval.

▪ It seemed speaking when you felt like it was a way to gain approval.

▪ Or how is he to submit to pain or exhaustion to gain their approval?

▪ The procedure has not gained formal approval by the International Olympic Committee because it does not give conclusive proof of drug use.

attention

▪ Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention.

▪ The morass in Washington has gained even greater attention as bond investors have little economic news on which to focus.

▪ To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others.

▪ Since then it has gained more and more attention as astronomers worldwide watch its progress en route to the sun.

▪ His works were slow to gain wide attention in the United States.

▪ This gives an opportunity for your message to gain more attention from the reader and perhaps to make a deeper impression.

▪ Lucky had wanted to gain his attention in some way.

benefit

▪ On top of the recovery in demand, Forte stands to gain the full benefit of cost reductions of £40m made last year.

▪ Study these carefully to ensure you gain maximum benefit from every interview you attend.

▪ He became close friends with the Pipers and gained great benefits from their taste, experience and enthusiasm.

▪ How will you measure when it is time to start gaining financial benefit?

▪ Staff would have new opportunities to gain additional skills and benefit from greater flexibility.

▪ So Swannson-on-Wheels will gain considerable benefit from the purchase of a relatively local garage facility on the outskirts of Tetbury.

▪ In this manner the fish gain the benefits of both food sources.

▪ Small farms in the public sector have been grouped together in cooperatives to gain all the benefits possible from size and concentration.

confidence

▪ Realizing this will gradually help you to gain confidence to go deeper and deeper into relaxation and experience full benefit from it.

▪ Remember that progress will speed up as he masters the first few steps of a particular challenge and gains some confidence.

▪ She touched this totem carefully, gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened.

▪ Abused women can gain new confidence when they realize they have political leverage against their abusive spouses.

▪ With remarkable speed this novel organization gained the confidence of the capital's work-force.

▪ People have gained confidence in sending substantial sums off to unseen institutions and working with them long-distance.

▪ She will gain confidence in communication and management skills, and her own knowledge will be tested.

▪ Even if he had not gained her confidence by constant restimulation of late-life areas he would have provoked her tears.

control

▪ It ran across my chest, and over my shoulder, and I leaned into it to gain control.

▪ I started to return well and I gained control of the match.

▪ But these tiny acts helped women gain some measure of control over our lives.

▪ Fortunately, the investment banks have managed to gain control of the dividends of only big and new companies.

▪ The attack recovered the lost guns and gained control of a good part of the plateau.

▪ Meanwhile both groups began infiltrating the city in an attempt to gain control of key locations.

▪ Soon he would gain control of himself and the role, Logan said.

currency

▪ It was in these conditions that Marxist ideas began to gain currency.

▪ But then, of course, I knew how that idea had gained currency.

▪ During the 1880s Marxism began to gain currency among the revolutionary intelligentsia.

▪ Two misconceptions about the Treaty of Maastricht have been allowed to gain currency.

▪ This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century.

▪ It gained currency during the period of national reawakening in the nineteenth century.

▪ Oral tradition was written down and gained a wider currency than ever before.

degree

▪ These more favoured subcontractors, however, gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits.

▪ Wirral-born Mike joined the company in 1979 from Newcastle University where he gained a chemical engineering degree.

▪ If you wish, you can go on from there to gain an Honours degree.

▪ However for AEs the figures were virtually identical with those of standard entrants. 2% more SEs gained good degrees than NSEs.

▪ After leaving Richmond School, he gained a degree in sports studies at Newcastle Polytechnic.

▪ She gained a degree in both languages and subsequently enroled in our course.

▪ Only 25.4% gained a good degree compared with 32.1% of the SEs and 30.1% of the NSEs as a whole.

▪ Jones International, a for-profit university, recently caused controversy by gaining full degree accreditation.

experience

▪ In my opinion it is very doubtful whether all this disruption to so many people was justified by the experience I gained.

▪ When women start to examine and share their experiences, they gain knowledge of politics.

▪ An accurate record of her progress needs to be kept and a check made on the experience she has gained.

▪ At the present time, with the considerable experience gained and with additional personnel available, this initial effort should be axiomatic.

▪ But as experience is gained through constant repetition, each movement of the form begins to flow smoothly into the next.

▪ Guidance was first published in 1973, and it has been periodically revised in the light of experience gained.

▪ Obviously this utilises the experience I have gained to date and also allows me to develop further within my chosen field.

▪ As a by-product, with the experience gained they are now in a strong position to enter paid advice work.

foothold

▪ Spreadsheets have typically adopted these commands in order to gain some foothold in the market.

▪ These opportunistic diseases would not otherwise gain a foothold in the body.

▪ Already her knitwear had gained a small foothold on the Continent.

▪ Keeping hydrated improves the body's ability to trap and neutralize those microbes before they can gain a foothold.

ground

▪ Nationalism has gained ground to the extent that it has begun to claim mainstream status.

▪ Having gained the high moral ground, I was reluctant to quit it right away.

▪ It is by no means certain that the Tory tax offensive has gained much ground.

▪ Martin also gained ground on Gordon, finishing sixth and moving within 87 points.

▪ Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.

▪ These companies appear to have gained some ground on Packard Bell.

▪ The secular temper of the times, however, ensured that the more extreme theories connected with evolution continued to gain ground.

▪ The trend gained ground in the United States, where early symphony audiences ached to exude social refinement.

impression

▪ In particular, you may gain the impression that you are being victimised because of what you are, rather than because of who you are.

▪ Lest her neighbours gain the impression that no-one ever wrote to her, she wrote and mailed letters to herself.

▪ Walking amongst the ruins of an ancient city, for example, it is impossible to gain an overall impression of the layout.

▪ Even today it is easy to gain a lopsided impression.

▪ If you can satisfy these three requirements the reader should gain a good first impression of both the essay and the writer.

▪ So attempt to gain an impression of paper, and a feel for the movement, rather than painting details.

▪ Visitors to the studio could gain an impression of his work as a whole and grasp the cumulative effect.

independence

▪ Further education colleges will gain new independence from April 1993, and will be responsible for their own budgets.

▪ Prosecutors claim the brothers killed for their parents' $ 14 million fortune, and to gain their independence.

▪ By the 1930s Storni had gained sufficient independence to allow her poetic vision to encompass the world of objects around her.

▪ Gandhi had risen above his acts, he had gained considerable independence of their success or failure.

information

▪ Some of the more sensational reports claimed that Misrati had used his attractive young daughter to gain access to information.

▪ Do not forget the benefits you will gain from career information interviewing and job location interviewing.

▪ Additional aims included gaining further information about the timing and frequency of recurrence and learning how often this was associated with symptoms.

▪ Ability to gain access to information, and to desire information from a variety of points of view.

▪ I hope that from this feature, readers will want to gain more information about Killifish.

▪ Further evidence of the disadvantaged position of older women in relation to men can be gained from information on the distribution of income.

▪ As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care.

▪ A central zone leads to other areas where you can test yourself, gain information, do puzzles and so on.

insight

▪ Since then he had gained insight into himself, and into a woman's heart.

▪ She may talk with attorneys and other observers during the breaks to gain further insights.

▪ To visit them is to gain an insight into what many of our own wetlands must have been like.

▪ We also felt that they might gain some insight into why it is they are so often in trouble with us.

▪ The trust wants to gain an insight into the county's butterfly population.

▪ This guidance helped them gain insight into the characteristics that inhibited their own ability to persist and to complete schoolwork.

▪ Pupils use drama to gain insights into moral and social issues in works of literature.

▪ Perhaps they hope to heighten their appreciation of nature by gaining insight into its ways.

knowledge

▪ The book is based on his knowledge of Wychwood gained then, but for his story he went back even further in time.

▪ Reflective abstraction is the abstraction of new knowledge from editing knowledge gained by reflection or thought.

▪ Using inside knowledge gained from twenty years in the industry she shows how recent scandals could have been avoided.

▪ Mistakes unfortunately are inevitable while knowledge is gained.

▪ While they adhere to some uniform practices, these are not systematically informed and shaped by pertinent experience and knowledge gained elsewhere.

▪ When the knowledge gained by genomics comes on line, the power of genetic engineering will truly become evident.

▪ To a large extent, success in this area has reflected knowledge gained from nature.

momentum

▪ The Axiam judders and shakes like a very early classic bike then slowly gains momentum rather than actually accelerating.

▪ If he could emerge triumphant from those events, he believed he would gain the momentum to win the White House.

▪ The back of my car began to gain momentum.

▪ Biological and entomological studies gained momentum through the photographic record.

▪ If a punch is aimed at the face, the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum.

▪ While critics of his decision gained momentum Thursday, the record shows they face an uphill battle.

▪ It's a subject that has gained momentum across the country in recent years.

opportunity

▪ She would treat this as an unexpected opportunity to gain experience in mass-production fashion.

▪ The initiation and implementation of economic development projects also provides government with opportunities to gain political support from a diverse constituency.

▪ Established in 1978, this group has grown rapidly, and there is considerable opportunity for you to gain management experience.

▪ They missed the opportunity, but they gained what some would later consider to be a legitimate claim to intervention.

▪ In particular, they should give pupils the opportunity to gain some experience of the works of Shakespeare.

▪ And within that, we must have a strong, equal and unfettered opportunity to compete and gain access.

▪ Staff would have new opportunities to gain additional skills and benefit from greater flexibility.

▪ Seizing the opportunity to gain better qualifications actually puts you in charge and gives you a self-confidence charge.

party

▪ One poll suggests that the party has gained 1 %, another says support has fallen by the same amount.

▪ The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.

▪ A bipartisan tax bill will have to bridge big differences between the parties on capital gains tax cuts.

▪ In elections in 1921 Mussolini won a seat in Milan, and his party gained 35 of 535 seats in the country.

▪ This effort has escalated sharply since the 1994 election when the Republican Party gained control of both houses of Congress.

▪ The Labour Party gains its most consistent successes in London and the other major cities.

▪ Muhamad Salikh, chair of the ErK democratic party, gained 12 percent.

percent

▪ Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent.

▪ Simsmetal had previously reported a 10. 1 percent gain to A $ 14. 6 million in first quarter profit.

▪ Economists had anticipated around a 1. 2 percent gain in June.

▪ Forecasters had expected roughly a 0. 6 percent gain in December retail sales.

▪ Invesco Strategic Gold ranked second with a 46. 2 percent gain.

▪ Amgen Inc. reported a 23 percent increase in comparable earnings and an 18 percent gain in revenues for fiscal year 1995.

popularity

▪ But it has gained amazingly in popularity.

▪ Another, newer type of yeast is gaining in popularity.

▪ So why is complementary medicine gaining popularity?

▪ A strategy rapidly gaining popularity is to use three of them at once.

▪ Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.

▪ His fortunes slip as competing styles gain popularity.

▪ The desire to cut taxes Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes, not by increasing them.

▪ Talk radio and talk television hosts, mostly but by no means all conservative, are proliferating and gaining influence and popularity.

power

▪ This helped them to gain height and get power when heading the ball.

▪ Tobaccocontrol advocates agree, saying their lack of vigilance in decades past had allowed the Tobacco Institute to gain power and influence.

▪ The only trouble with gaining power over our lives is that it is people like us who have the power.

▪ Although the balance of power is shifting against the commission, in absolute terms it will gain power.

▪ For decades, politicians have been trying to gain power in Washington by separating themselves from Washington.

▪ Nor was it through magic alone that the impulse arose to gain power over nature.

▪ Quite suddenly, they had gained the power to confer respectability.

qualification

▪ She began her career as a child care officer in Dorset after gaining her social work qualification at Liverpool University.

▪ In 1989-90, 16,000 people entered the Programme, and 10,700 gained a qualification.

▪ Women are much more likely to gain arts qualifications, while men are more likely to gain scientific ones.

▪ People are given the chance to gain a vocational qualification in areas as diverse as catering, working with horses and machinery.

▪ Students can count on company help to gain qualifications Tidy the desk, flick off the lights, and leave the building.

▪ Ponyboy hopes he will finish school and go on to university, so that he can gain qualifications and lead a better life.

▪ Students will have to produce a portfolio of work and successfully complete a written exam to gain a unit qualification.

▪ Seizing the opportunity to gain better qualifications actually puts you in charge and gives you a self-confidence charge.

recognition

▪ He has given the nurses every support in their efforts to gain recognition, and will speak at their conference.

▪ The brothers' work continued to stir interest and gain recognition.

▪ The importance of this enabling approach is, happily, gaining greater recognition.

▪ M that he began to gain recognition as an offensive coordinator with an effective wide-open attack and the ability to groom quarterbacks.

▪ To gain attention and recognition we need to be able to attend to and recognise others.

▪ Some remained essentially local, some gained a widespread popular recognition, and certain deities rose to national significance.

▪ To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system.

reputation

▪ It was now that she gained her reputation for eccentricity.

▪ Loeb, the newspaper publisher, gained a national reputation as a spiteful manipulator of politics.

▪ He gained a reputation as a practical joker, yet at the same time could be quite morose.

▪ Both were gaining reputations as the key entrepreneurs of their time.

▪ Vindicated by events, she gained a reputation for courage and devotion to principle.

▪ What they needed, they decided, was to set up a nursery themselves to gain a corporate reputation.

▪ Joe quickly gained a reputation as a Washington host of verve and style.

respect

▪ But more than 80 % of people thought it was harder for women to gain respect in some foreign cultures.

▪ He also knew that this was Lennie's chance to gain some respect from the other men, especially Curley.

▪ He gained their respect and they his.

▪ Both had been ridiculed, struggled for sponsors and money and both had gained respect for their efforts.

▪ It is difficult to gain their respect as an adult.

▪ Get yourself somewhere to live and gain her respect again.

▪ Adam quickly gained the respect of the soldiers and popularity with those officers whose currency was not to deal in rumour.

▪ To gain respect in this infuriating but somehow compelling man's eyes?

seat

▪ Labour had gained over 130 seats, and for the first time in history it was the strongest party in the state.

▪ Since Sanders generally votes Democratic, the Democrats need to gain an additional 20 seats to win control of the House.

▪ Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent.

▪ The winner would gain a seat on the City Council and would automatically be named mayor.

▪ Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.

▪ Republicans gained two seats in the Senate and now enjoy a 55-45 majority in the Senate.

▪ In elections in 1921 Mussolini won a seat in Milan, and his party gained 35 of 535 seats in the country.

▪ It gained an additional eight seats in the North West, but the swing there was only 2.0 percent.

share

▪ Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale.

▪ Mr Petty is hoping to gain market share by lowering prices on popular menu combinations under a new three-tiered pricing program.

▪ Telephones, photocopiers, word processors and computers are all there at our fingertips, allowing us to gain and share information.

▪ Some groups, such as the farmers and the labor unions, now gained a greater share in power and its benefits.

▪ Premiumpriced wines have also gained share, while the generic table wines have grown much more slowly.

▪ Only one in four cable channels managed to gain market share in prime time last year.

▪ Human Genome Sciences gain boosted shares of other biotechnology companies, many of which are based in southern Maryland.

support

▪ A man better placed to gain the support of the Visigoths was Avitus, praetorian prefect of Gaul from 439.

▪ But gaining that support was not a foregone conclusion.

▪ This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign.

▪ We have swallowed our anger, presented a respectable front, in our bid to gain public support.

▪ It would not be surprising if, to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions, reformers had to work very hard.

▪ To do this it had to gain the support, both of the judiciary and the public, for its new measures.

▪ Twenty years ago when both these causes were beginning to gain wide support, many people saw them as clashing.

▪ After giving testimony in 1997 and 1998, Levar had tried several times to gain financial support and asylum in another country.

understanding

▪ To gain an understanding of the persistence and excellence of black sportsmen, the analysis has to begin in the eighteenth century.

▪ The principal aim of this exploratory research is to gain a better understanding of franchising and the franchising decision.

▪ To gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented, the reader is referred to the bibliography.

▪ To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism.

▪ It is difficult to see how avoiding teaching about what is distinctive of religion can help people gain an understanding of it!

▪ We are gaining greater knowledge, understanding, sensitivity, and appreciation.

▪ They can give the same information as the text, giving the reader two opportunities of gaining clear understanding.

weight

▪ They gained weight, and may have stayed at that weight for some time.

▪ Although a few are thin, most have been gaining weight.

▪ Although he ate nothing afterwards he continued to gain weight thanks to the presence of the Troll flesh.

▪ Several studies have shown that the physical stresses of repeatedly gaining and losing weight are linked with earl, deaths.

▪ Until then, the poor rule may even gain weight.

▪ Of the eight whose measurements did change, three had fatter thighs, partly because they gained weight.

▪ Those women who need to gain weight are treated like a rare breed.

▪ In the 1870s, after all, when plumpness was in vogue, physicians had encouraged people to gain weight.

yards

▪ Greer gained 74 yards on 18 carries, including 43 yards on 12 attempts after Streets went down.

▪ Minnesota gained 74 yards rushing in its three previous games combined.

▪ Denson also gained 92 yards rushing.

▪ He goes on to become the first rookie since 1986 to gain 1, 000 yards receiving.

▪ Williams and Kaufman each gained 54 yards....

▪ He was backed up by true freshman Marcus Fields, who gained 90 yards on 19 carries.

▪ They chewed up the clock, gained some yards on the ground, even handled the safety blitz.

▪ Kaufman gained just 13 yards on 11 carries.

■ VERB

lose

▪ So ask your building society what you could lose or gain from a remortgage.

▪ As the underdog here, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

▪ At Oxford he lost his faith but gained a first at Balliol, in Law.

▪ San Diego, of course, lost everything that Tucson gained, and jobs were simply moved from one pocket to another.

▪ He has lost everything and gained a faith, and he knows that in the chapel a flame burns for him.

▪ The attack recovered the lost guns and gained control of a good part of the plateau.

▪ Nevertheless, modern nomenclature loses more than it gains.

▪ Some one else invested your profit-sharing for you, and made sure that you never lost and almost always gained.

stand

▪ On top of the recovery in demand, Forte stands to gain the full benefit of cost reductions of £40m made last year.

▪ If the government acted upon this report the Raika stood to gain certain privileges.

▪ What do you stand to gain in a wrongful dismissal case?

▪ Kitty probably stands to gain a couple mill.

▪ And finally, who stood to gain?

▪ Consumers, often preyed on during times of grief, stand to gain.

▪ Was it possible that Short was part of the conspiracy, that he stood to gain from his own horse being beaten?

▪ A gene in a splurge-weed cell stands to gain by promoting the reproduction of its cell.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

gain ground

▪ Dole feels that Forbes is gaining ground.

▪ For once, the index gained ground despite a decline in shares of Vodafone, the market's biggest stock.

▪ He was gaining ground on all of them, he had the beating of them yet.

▪ Martin also gained ground on Gordon, finishing sixth and moving within 87 points.

▪ Nationalism has gained ground to the extent that it has begun to claim mainstream status.

▪ The fierce campaign by several anti-Maastricht movements has been gaining ground.

▪ The trend gained ground in the United States, where early symphony audiences ached to exude social refinement.

gain/get access (to sth)

▪ The police managed to gain access through an upstairs window.

▪ Dietary calcium gains access to the organism mostly by transport in the small intestine.

▪ Environmentalists fear that many citizens will simply forge documents in order to gain access to the city centre.

▪ Joe quickly gained access to the upper reaches of both Washingtons.

▪ Once you realise that some blocks need to be matched early, in order to gain access to others, things get tougher.

▪ Security is maintained by terminal operators using unique identification and password codes to gain access to the system.

▪ There is no evidence that the intruder gained access to the source code for Office or any Windows products.

▪ What Renaissance culture was and how we gain access to it increasingly became seen as problematic.

▪ You gain access to your data by typing in a user name and password.

have/gain the upper hand

▪ Police have gained the upper hand over the drug dealers in the area.

▪ But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand.

▪ If the two had been introduced simultaneously, the larger one would invariably have the upper hand.

▪ Now White gains the upper hand.

▪ Officials said they might reopen the freeway at 5 p. m. today, perhaps sooner if firefighters gain the upper hand overnight.

▪ The world can only pray that they do not gain the upper hand.

▪ Under the proposed law, she would have the upper hand.

▪ We must destroy them now, while we yet have the upper hand.

▪ When you have a gun you have the upper hand, it makes you feel big, bad.

no pain, no gain

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ A new-born baby will gain weight at around one ounce per day.

▪ Detroit gained a spot in the finals with a 4-0 victory over Toronto.

▪ Hawaii gained statehood in 1959.

▪ His ideas are gaining a lot of support.

▪ It took her a long time to gain enough confidence to speak in public.

▪ She stayed in the job for give years, gaining valuable experience.

▪ The four men told the inquiry they did not know why the plane failed to gain height after it took off.

▪ The train rolled forward, gaining speed rapidly.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ But she never uses her personality to gain a career advantage.

▪ In the trite words of many a wedding speech, they have gained a son or daughter.

▪ Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.

▪ Perhaps it would be best to defeat the Foundation and gain the power Wienis spoke of.

▪ Royal Insurance Holdings continued to ignore the drip of the John Spalvin share sales, gaining at one time 20p.

▪ Seeing this, finally suspecting, the auditor was able to gain her confidence and locate the despair charges.

▪ The Bloomberg Minnesota Index gained 1. 04 to 131. 11.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

average

▪ The pros remain comfortably ahead in this series of overlapping six-month contests, measured both in overall score and average investment gain.

▪ During the 5 1 / 2-year period, the professionals have posted an average six-month investment gain of 10. 5 %.

▪ The average weight gain after lunch was about 2.5 pounds, which is appropriate in normal cases.

big

▪ His remarks, in a television interview, followed big electoral gains by the anti-immigrant far-right National Front. -Reuter.

▪ Sizzling sectors like the Internet brought big gains to buyers of Netscape.

▪ But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead.

▪ The biggest monthly job gain during the year for Virginia was 29, 000 in April.

▪ On 26 May the left made big gains in local elections in Dijon.

▪ Shares of small Contractors, especially, have posted big gains since the announcement.

▪ Donnie Anderson had several big gains.

▪ The biggest gains and the most bitter disputes arise over trades between north and south.

capital

▪ Such an argument relies on the capital gains being unanticipated.

▪ The capital gains on the transactions are deferred until they complete the transaction at a future date by replacing the borrowed shares.

▪ The assumption made is that the capital gain or loss occurs evenly over the remaining life of the bond.

▪ President Clinton has said he may be willing to accept some kind of capital gains cut.

▪ Whatever some fiscal economists may say, capital gains are not the same as income.

▪ By eliminating this technique to raise cash without realizing a capital gain, the Treasury proposes to force investors to pay up.

▪ And, as gilt prices rise when interest rates fall, you should also be sure of a capital gain.

▪ A flat tax, he wrote in December 1994, would eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividends, interest and estates.

early

▪ Sun Life Assurance lost much of an early gain but managed to close 10p higher at 1,123p.

▪ The early gains from the stock market rally begot a feeling of invincibility.

▪ Stocks lost early gains after the Nationalist change in tactics.

▪ But stocks and bonds lost all their early gains by the end of the day.

▪ The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.

economic

▪ Never was economic gain, as well as the consideration of military security which we mentioned earlier, more clearly in evidence.

▪ Moreover, many of the economic gains were created by government intervention and monitoring.

▪ Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms.

▪ The increase in the incomes of elite workers is only relative; it does not result from their own stellar economic gains.

▪ Although inequality has increased, the economic gains have not generally been by the rich at the expense of the poor.

▪ Many officials in Hanoi had hoped the lifting of the trade embargo in February 1994 would lead to quicker economic gain.

▪ The economic gain from foreign contracts is not worth the risk to national property.

▪ Formerly enthusiastic, Saigon businessmen now called for caution, preferring to consolidate their economic gains in Cochinchina.

financial

▪ Moreover, many nonconformists achieved considerable professional reputations and financial gain through private patronage from the native intelligentsia and the foreign community.

▪ These people were entrepreneurs who undertook challenge not for financial gain, but for human service.

▪ The point about a woman using her uterus for financial gain poses two problems.

▪ They may exchange short term financial gain for longterm strategic disadvantage.

▪ They are using it - milking it for their own financial gain.

▪ It would not be considered a serious loss by the company and the financial gain to the robbers was not necessarily substantial.

▪ There is little support for the idea that Shipman killed for financial gain.

great

▪ If the loss if greater than the gain then the job holder should leave.

▪ The greatest gains in in-come and wealth have come to the top one-half of one percent of the population.

▪ That is a great gain from the reforms.

▪ As these examples indicate, there have been great environmental gains in traffic restraint areas, quite apart from the traffic improvements.

▪ Lancaster was also responsible for his marriage, which took place about 1308 and led to still greater gains.

huge

▪ Whenever I come across it now, I think of the huge commercial gain awaiting the person who can provide it.

▪ They are funds known for churning out huge gains one year, only to slide off the cliff the next.

▪ The Republicans also made huge gains in Congress.

▪ The midterm elections brought huge Republican gains.

▪ Any minor problems that exist are much more noticeable when the guitar is used with huge amounts of gain.

▪ Historically, the emergence of parliament as the source of legal authority was a huge gain for humanity.

▪ Attainment of such huge signal power gain is of the greatest electronic significance.

large

▪ In 1995 the Dow Jones industrial average rose 33 percent, the largest gain since 1975 and the fourth biggest ever.

▪ The Nikkei index rose 1,252.51 points, to close at 17,850.66, recording the fifth largest single-day gain on record.

▪ The largest gains were made during the past 20 years of affirmative action policies, Herrera and others say.

▪ In fact, quite large amounts of gain reduction can be applied before the signal starts to show signs of being squashed.

▪ That followed much larger gains in November and December when the legislated increase in the federal minimum wage was a factor.

▪ The broader market posted a larger gain, with the Standard&038;.

▪ The last larger gain occurred in 1988.

modest

▪ The prospect of good wages and modest gains provided ample inducement to serve; but there were no doubt other motives as well.

▪ But even such modest gains were expensive.

▪ Still, the fact that closing Napster may bring only modest gains makes the case a closer call.

▪ Growing concerns about profit margins sent technology stocks sharply lower, overshadowing modest gains for blue-chip stocks.

▪ The sterling-denominated funds have recorded relatively modest gains across a narrow spread of returns.

net

▪ A closed system is a system in which there is no net gain or loss of matter in the system.

▪ Between 1989 and 1991, large companies with 500 or more employees contributed a net gain of only 122, 000 jobs.

▪ Society would make a net gain by producing more films.

▪ Florida had a net gain of 127, 180, followed by California with about 61, 000.

▪ So the net welfare gains of allowing free movement of capital are equal to area 8 plus half the shaded area.

▪ Total inflows minus total outflows results in the predicted net cash gain or loss during the month.

▪ In the 1990s, the South had a net gain of 326,000 adult blacks from the rest of the country.

▪ But the Democratic Party needs a net gain of only 20 seats.

personal

▪ One was said to have sold dozens of military engines for personal gain.

▪ Forsyth set out to monopolize the best view of the Falls for his personal gain.

▪ Equally important was the existence of a ruling class willing to put commercial considerations before personal gain.

▪ She denies any suggestion that she used her official position for personal gain.

▪ He suggested that people's interests are best served by pursuing personal gains.

▪ Several of the leading journals published articles directed against ambitious politicians who thought more of personal gain than of national welfare.

▪ He led a rather monastic, reclusive lifestyle and displayed a complete disregard for personal gain.

▪ High slack systems, then, are often hotbed of deceptive activities that cover up the exercise of power for personal gain.

political

▪ Gore could not afford to run the risk of seeing his hard-won political gains evaporate in a populist revolt over fuel costs.

▪ Where's the political gain for such pain?

▪ Some say the governor is simply pandering to the populace for political gain.

▪ In other words the incident is exploited for personal, political, etc. gain.

▪ But its political gains have been slow in coming.

potential

▪ The potential gain from rail privatization would be a more commercial railway and a better service for the public.

▪ At no time can I remember ever being stopped from pursuing an objective which was of ultimate potential gain to the company.

▪ Similarly, a fall in the rate of interest means a potential capital gain for investors.

▪ An opportunity should never be judged by the size of the potential gains but by the likelihood of those gains.

▪ Do not be tempted to start a harder routine at the beginning as this will almost certainly detract from the potential gains.

private

▪ He castigated those who had become wealthy by exploiting their political standing for private gain.

▪ In this view, men starved amid abundance because goods were produced for private gain and not for public good.

▪ These private gains are also social gains, since society can use less resources to achieve the same output.

▪ It is not clear whether Fanglin's children were being mobilised to pay school bills or were exploited for private gain.

real

▪ However in commercial bargaining or in interchanges between departments or divisions both sides may emerge with a real gain.

▪ Yet the real energy gain in fuels does not come from burning the carbon component of hydrocarbons, but the hydrogen portion.

▪ You will need to do the sums carefully to see whether there is any real gain.

▪ Nevertheless, some real gains came out of it.

▪ With inflation expected to run at about 5 percent, these boosts represent real gains.

▪ So does frustration over the absence of any real change or any real performance gains.

▪ That real gain matched that of December and was above the 0.1 percent increases in both October and November.

significant

▪ The Greens Vihret made significant gains, increasing their seats from four to 10.

▪ Nicholson inherits a party that has made significant gains across the country the past four years.

▪ This produced a significant efficiency gain with negligible, if any, loss of accuracy.

▪ ProSieben showed the most significant gain of the three, rising 5.4 per cent to Euros 33.10.

▪ Tests will be derived by checking whether generalisations of a model under scrutiny lead to significant gains.

▪ The men of Second Army, pushing either side of the Menin Road, made significant gains.

small

▪ Such small gains were incentive enough for many.

▪ This was the smallest gain in seven months.

▪ That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system.

▪ As small as these gains seem, they infuriated the Klan.

▪ For example, when sodium chloride dissolves in water, there is a small net gain in energy.

▪ Such were the small gains to be made from a playing career at the very top.

strong

▪ With the economy behaving in almost perfect fashion, stock prices enjoyed some of their strongest gains in years.

▪ Last spring he began selling short some of the same technology stocks that had earlier generated strong gains for Crabbe Huson Special.

▪ High technology stocks fared unexpectedly well, however, with most of them suffering only moderate losses while some made strong gains.

substantial

▪ But despite those substantial gains, bold statements about fighting every seat in the next general election were no longer heard.

▪ There seemed to be so few substantial gains in his own country.

▪ Both Central and Carlton shares have made substantial gains following today's announcement.

▪ Certainly this is desirable if the Target shares have accrued a substantial gain.

▪ As most of the privatisation issues are sold at a discount, there is usually a substantial capital gain to be made.

▪ Only where the multinationals' power has been harnessed have substantial gains in income-elastic goods been achieved.

territorial

▪ After the war Stalin did not wish to give up these territorial gains.

▪ Other territorial gains had been short-lived.

total

▪ If each stage has a gain of a hundred, that's a total gain of a million.

■ NOUN

control

▪ Recurrent networks can perform functions such as automatic gain control or energy normalization and selecting a maximum in complex systems.

▪ Also note that the gyro gain control is similarly limited by the mechanical linkage and this too can only reduce the response.

productivity

▪ The only productivity gain that he can show for it is in the courts.

▪ Meanwhile, the problems of stagnant wages, low savings and sluggish productivity gains will remain unsolved.

tax

▪ Instead, you can use your annual capital gains tax exemption-currently £7,200-to shelter the returns from the taxman.

▪ The present capital-gains tax maximum is 28 percent for individuals and 35 percent for corporations.

▪ Capital gains tax has been slashed.

▪ Such a transaction, instead of a sale, would avoid about $ 1 billion in capital-gains taxes.

▪ Any prizes are free of income tax and capital gains tax.

▪ The debate is over and the verdict is in on capital gains taxes.

▪ The capital gains tax controversy coincides with another heated national debate affecting white people.

▪ To conservatives, it means abolishing the capital gains tax, lowering the top rate on millionaires.

weight

▪ The effect of overeating is weight gain, which in itself is an added stress.

▪ In a vicious cycle, weight gain increases insulin resistance increases weight gain.

▪ Body weight gain was checked every week.

▪ And other studies show exercise plays a major role in both prevention of weight gain and maintenance of weight loss.

▪ Parents may also need some advice and discussion about the types of high-calorie food that are important for weight gain and growth.

▪ The average weight gain after lunch was about 2.5 pounds, which is appropriate in normal cases.

▪ Measurements of dry weight gain showed a marked decline in relative growth rate below 5°C.

▪ And eating more than you expend ends up in weight gain.

■ VERB

achieve

▪ Again, without this design for integration it will be very difficult to achieve the expected gains of databases and information systems.

▪ Hence it would be possible to achieve a Pareto gain, making some people better off without making anyone else worse off.

expect

▪ The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.

▪ In the fall, many analysts and retailers had expected sales gains in the mid-to high-single digits.

lose

▪ How does a donor lose and a recipient gain?

▪ If the winners actually compensated the losers, the winners could lose most of their gains.

▪ The years pass; he loses his hair, gains weight.

▪ Stocks lost early gains after the Nationalist change in tactics.

▪ Do men lose as well as gain from dominant discourses of gender?

▪ But stocks and bonds lost all their early gains by the end of the day.

▪ Subcontracting part of the project is likely to lose time rather than gain it.

▪ The market lost its earlier gains on perceptions the coldest temperatures came in areas where previous frost damage forced an early harvest.

make

▪ You do not invest in the equity market to make capital gains!

▪ Netscape held the early lead in the category, but Microsoft has made considerable gains more recently.

▪ The lowest quartile made gains 30 percent greater than their counterparts.

▪ Capital gains tax Here a tax is imposed when individuals part with an asset and make a capital gain on it.

▪ Meanwhile, Digital made gains in the market for Intel-based personal computers.

▪ The Holbrooke deal has made some important gains.

▪ How, then, can the company calculate whether or not his group has made a gain?

offset

▪ What is less certain is whether they have been, or will be, offset by corresponding gains.

▪ Earnings fell short of analysts' expectations, however, as increased problem loans partly offset revenue gains.

▪ Loss of Exchequer revenue has been considerable and has not been offset by any gain in total expenditure on health care.

post

▪ Stores posted healthy gains after reporting lively post-Christmas sales.

▪ Osborn said it would post a fourth-quarter pretax gain of $ 8. 1 million as a result of the sale.

▪ Shares of small Contractors, especially, have posted big gains since the announcement.

▪ The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its best gain in two weeks.

▪ The broader market posted a larger gain, with the Standard&038;.

▪ Brady bonds may have already posted most of the gains they will achieve in 1996, Blessing said.

produce

▪ But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead.

▪ In this view, men starved amid abundance because goods were produced for private gain and not for public good.

▪ Surely it is time that the pain produced some gain.

▪ The quarter just ended was the second in a row in which a tiny, aggressive fund produced the biggest gain.

▪ This exercise produces quite startling gains in a short time.

report

▪ Now, the company needs to report that gain or loss in its next earnings statement.

▪ Under the proposed rule, the company would only report the gain or loss when it is applied to the final sale.

▪ The company also reported sizable gains at the Jacksonville airport.

result

▪ The rate of tax on chargeable gains is that which results from adding the gain to the individual's total income.

▪ The exchange should result in a capital gain for Axa.

show

▪ Last weekend's small sample manual count, which showed marked Gore gains, shows that.

▪ The insurance sector was also showing healthy gains following its sharp return to profit.

▪ ProSieben showed the most significant gain of the three, rising 5.4 per cent to Euros 33.10.

▪ It would be surprising if the remaining model areas did not also show gains for the soft modes.