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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gross
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gross exaggeration (=very great and untrue)
▪ The figures in this report are a gross exaggeration.
a gross violation (=a very serious violation)
▪ They had committed gross violations of the law.
broad/sweeping/gross generalization
▪ a sweeping generalization based on speculation
gross domestic product
gross earnings (=before tax has been paid)
▪ You can usually borrow up to three times the value of your gross earnings per year.
gross income (=income before you have paid tax)
▪ The family’s gross income has increased by 5% this year.
gross insubordination
▪ Howell was fired for gross insubordination.
gross margin
gross misconduct (=very serious misconduct)
▪ She was found guilty of gross misconduct .
gross national product
gross profit (also pre-tax profit) (= before tax and costs are paid)
▪ The hotel group made a gross profit of £51.9 million in 2008.
gross profit
gross/net expenditure (=the total amount a company spends before/after any tax or costs have been taken away)
▪ Spending on research and development represents 13% of our gross expenditure.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
distortion
▪ That is a gross distortion of the truth.
▪ Moreover, an obsessive focus on Caravaggio panders to fashion and is a gross distortion of history.
▪ This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 percent ratio that we expect.
earnings
▪ A similar picture emerges in relation to the distribution of gross earnings among female manual workers.
▪ The agent's percentage comes from the band's gross earnings at gigs.
exaggeration
▪ But unless there is gross exaggeration or fabrication of symptoms, these should not he described as Meadow's syndrome.
▪ The first sentence in that passage is, of course, a gross exaggeration.
▪ It was a gross exaggeration, but there was a grain of truth in it.
income
▪ Conversely, he knows that a drop in gross income will de-motivate.
▪ If adjusted gross income is high enough, large amounts of business expense deductions will be lost under this 2 percent formula.
▪ Thus, in the top tenth of pensioner income groups, social security contributes only a quarter of gross income.
▪ Companies putting up factories at Subic can import goods for free and pay only a 5 percent tax on gross income.
▪ Traditionally, management commission rates have ranged from 15 to 25 percent of the band's gross income.
▪ The full deduction would be available for couples filing jointly with adjusted gross incomes of up to $ 100, 000.
▪ So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more.
▪ If gross income is below £25,000, receipts and payments accounts and a statements of assets and liabilities will do.
indecency
▪ They were bailed to appear before Liverpool magistrates next month, when they will face charges of gross indecency.
▪ The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency.
▪ The appellant, Norman Mattison, was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with his co-defendant.
▪ The co-defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of committing an act of gross indecency with the appellant.
▪ And today, police confirmed the Bishop had been formally cautioned for an act of gross indecency.
▪ He was prosecuted, convicted of gross indecency and given a two-year conditional discharge in November 1996.
▪ After retiring the jury returned with a notice asking whether the co-defendant was charged with gross indecency with the appellant only.
▪ This act of gross indecency provoked stern disapproval from the tour guide.
interest
▪ Only people whose total income is less than their personal allowances are allowed to register for gross interest payments.
investment
▪ Where no allowance is made for this depreciation in the calculation of investment, the resulting figure is called gross investment.
▪ Take an investment of £1,000 achieving a gross investment return of 7 percent a year.
▪ Specifically, where I t gross investment in the current year; b and c constant coefficients.
▪ In real terms, gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983.
▪ Until April 1971 public expenditure included spending by central and local government and gross investment by the nationalized industries.
margin
▪ It is really an accounting problem, and a balance must be struck between channel expense, profit and gross margins.
▪ The gross margin was 20. 7 percent in the fourth quarter.
▪ These machines have a gross margin of 50 percent.
▪ It blamed lower holiday sales, crimped gross margin, stormy weather and higher costs.
▪ The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins, coupled with lower channel expenses.
▪ But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
▪ In the year-ago first quarter, gross margin was 50.8%.
▪ A gross margin of $ 62, 500 is anticipated on $ 250, 000 in sales.
misconduct
▪ We usually treat physical violence towards others as gross misconduct and this could result in summary dismissal.
▪ In any case of gross misconduct no notice or pay would be due.
▪ An employer need not give any notice if the employee's conduct constitutes gross misconduct justifying instant dismissal.
▪ He was suspended from duty and then, in November, found guilty of gross misconduct.
▪ The employers learned of the letters and summarily dismissed the employees for gross misconduct.
▪ He was dismissed for gross misconduct, which seems to have centred on drug taking and homosexual activities.
▪ There was a contractual term dealing with summary dismissal for gross misconduct.
▪ Mrs Jonker, of Southport, said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings.
negligence
▪ No coach- or cart-horses, subject to hard work and gross negligence and ignorance were likely to be presented.
▪ No. 177, 1989, proposed to abolish manslaughter by gross negligence.
▪ The term gross negligence was never defined in the cases.
▪ Examples help to show the distinction between carelessness and gross negligence.
▪ Omissions cases falling within manslaughter by recklessness or gross negligence have also been set apart from cases of positive acts.
▪ If so, the law has been extended from gross negligence to carelessness.
▪ A manslaughter conviction would require proof of recklessness or, possibly, gross negligence.
▪ Even after Seymour gross negligence and recklessness are used interchangeably.
pay
▪ In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.
▪ It shows their tax code number and details of their gross pay and tax deducted to date.
profit
▪ This represents a difference or rather gross profit of 65p per dozen or £14.98 per bird over the same period.
▪ Sales less cost of sales yields a gross profit of $ 350.
▪ The possibility of a high gross profit margin. 6.
▪ Certainly one of the most important and most sensitive variables to be estimated is the gross profit margin.
▪ However, gross profit was down only £2m to £94m.
▪ The difference between sales and cost of sales is the gross profit which is distributed as tax and dividends.
▪ Water Assessment 1992 was an excellent year for oceanographic and water related work, with a gross profit significantly ahead of budget.
▪ A particular case that I remember was the client's stock calculations geared to achieving the required gross profit percentage.
receipt
▪ These clauses give the talent a percentage of the movie's gross receipts.
▪ They will report back the general sentiment on sales tax, gross receipts tax, business transaction tax.
revenues
▪ Adjustments to 1991's figures have been made wherever possible to reflect gross revenues.
violation
▪ It would be a gross violation to carry out noisy or even physically energetic rituals or ceremonial activities at them.
wage
▪ However, from the capitalists' point of view it is gross wages that are computed as costs.
▪ Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour.
weight
▪ That would be about sixty pounds from a side of 300 pounds gross weight of medium yield grade.
yield
▪ The current gross yield is about 5.46 percent gross.
▪ Initial gross yield is estimated at 6.6%.
▪ At the initial offer price for the unit trust of 50p, the estimated gross yield is 6.25%.
▪ They range from 8.10 percent to 9.68 percent and the weighted average gross yield is over 8.5 percent.
▪ Estimated gross yield at 100p is 4.5% a year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gross income of $150,000
▪ Brad threw up on the floor at the party. It was really gross.
▪ My gross annual income, before tax, is just over £18,000.
▪ Ooh, gross! The dog just threw up on the carpet!
▪ The gross weight of the package is 10 kilos, including the packaging.
▪ The company's gross earnings were up $12 million over last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By contrast, the gross margin on an alternative remedy is typically 30 percent, Toth said.
▪ Dini said inflation was kept to a moderate pace during the year, even as gross domestic product rose 3 percent.
▪ In the mid-1970s, public spending peaked at over 49 percent of our gross national product.
▪ Obviously you get more used to it the more often you do it, but it's still pretty gross.
▪ That factory turned out to be a short-lived exercise and a gross waste of Government money.
▪ The expected gross initial yield is 6.5%.
▪ Various tests suggested gross retardation by the end of the first year.
II.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She earns about $100,000 a year gross.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
▪ These are combined to give an overall requirement which is grossed up for tax and converted into the local currency.
▪ With the associated tax break, the promised returns could gross up into handsome rewards.
▪ Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up.
▪ A correction factor was then applied, as before, to gross up for the entire Scotch Whisky industry.
■ NOUN
million
▪ I hoped that it would gross $ 40 million because the movie cost 34.
▪ Combination stores may gross $ 8 million or more in sales annually.
▪ The theater currently grosses $ 14 million a year, $ 900,000 of which goes to the city.
product
▪ Tourism is our second biggest contributor - after North Sea oil - to gross domestic product.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If you gross over $100,000, you should consult a good tax accountant.
▪ Jack grosses $58,000 a year, but he has to pay taxes and health insurance out of that.
▪ The animated film "Jungle Book" grossed $7.7 million.
▪ Walmax, a California superstore, grosses more than eight million dollars annually.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was trying to gross me out.
▪ Hoffert said the business grossed about $ 285,000 last year, and will do better in 2000.
▪ If it grossed 40 with video and everything, then they'd have made a good profit.
▪ If you found the opening pitch a bit over the top, the follow-up would gross you out completely.
▪ The theater currently grosses $ 14 million a year, $ 900,000 of which goes to the city.
▪ Three years later, he had acquired a chain of theaters that grossed $ 10, 000 a week.
▪ With the associated tax break, the promised returns could gross up into handsome rewards.
IV.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gross of pencils
▪ Cats has made a gross of over $460 million in the United States alone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I just thought, you know, how much gross are they going to get?
▪ Keno accounted for 16 percent of its gross, or $ 421 million gross sales the past fiscal year.
▪ May you now dance in the streets and support a gross of towns!
▪ Sums of less than £25,000 earn 5.7 per cent gross, while sums of more than £25,000 earn 5.95 per cent gross.
▪ The average Kirby factory distributor grosses more than $ 1 million a year, he says, and many gross even more.
▪ The Economics Ministry said today gross domestic product probably shrank in the fourth quarter of 1995.
▪ The government will release a preliminary estimate of full-year gross domestic product tomorrow.
▪ Two years ago, an average gross margin might have been £200 / acre, he points out.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gross

Gross \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. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark.

  6. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.

  7. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

  8. 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 weight, or net weight.

Gross

Gross \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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gross

mid-14c., "large;" early 15c., "coarse, plain, simple," from Old French gros "big, thick, fat, tall, pregnant; coarse, rude, awkward; ominous, important; arrogant" (11c.), from Late Latin grossus "thick, coarse (of food or mind)," of obscure origin, not in classical Latin. Said to be unrelated to Latin crassus, which meant the same thing, or to German gross "large," but said by Klein to be cognate with Old Irish bres, Middle Irish bras "big." Its meaning forked in English to "glaring, flagrant, monstrous" (1580s) on the one hand and "entire, total, whole" (early 15c.) on the other. Meaning "disgusting" is first recorded 1958 in U.S. student slang, from earlier use as an intensifier of unpleasant things (gross stupidity, etc.). Earlier "coarse in behavior or manners" (1530s) and, of things, "inferior, common" (late 15c.). Gross national product first recorded 1947.

gross

"a dozen dozen," early 15c., from Old French grosse douzaine "large dozen;" see gross (adj.). Earlier as the name of a measure of weight equal to one-eighth of a dram (early 15c.). Sense of "total profit" (opposed to net) is from 1520s.

gross

"to earn a total of," 1884, from gross (n.). Related: Grossed; grossing.

Wiktionary
gross

  1. 1 (context slang not UK English) disgusting, nasty. 2 coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure. n. 1 twelve dozen = 144. 2 The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. 3 The bulk, the mass, the masses. v

  2. To earn money, not including expenses.

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WordNet
gross

  1. n. twelve dozen [syn: 144]

  2. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made [syn: revenue, receipts]

gross

v. earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

gross

  1. adj. before any deductions; "gross income" [ant: net]

  2. visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) [syn: megascopic]

  3. of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"

  4. repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: porcine]

  5. 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" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank]

  6. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)]

  7. 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" [syn: coarse, crude, earthy, vulgar]

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Gazetteer
Gross, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 5
Housing Units (2000): 1
Land area (2000): 0.130441 sq. miles (0.337841 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.130441 sq. miles (0.337841 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20295
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.946756 N, 98.569233 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Gross
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Gross

Gross may refer to:

Gross (economics)

In economics, gross means before deductions or expenses. The antonym is net, meaning after deductions.

Gross (surname)

Gross is a surname of German and also Yiddish origin. The word means "big" or "tall" and was adopted in olden times as a surname by people with such a physical stature. In Germany, the name is usually spelled Groß, which is the correct spelling under German orthographic rules. In Switzerland the name is spelled Gross. Some Germans and Austrians also use the spelling with "ss" instead of "ß".

Gross (unit)

In English and related languages, several terms involving the words "great" or "gross" (possibly, from thick) relate to numbers involving multiples of exponents of twelve ( dozen):

  • A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen).
  • A great gross refers to a group of 1728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen).
  • A small gross or a great hundred refers to a group of 120 items (ten dozen).

A gross may be abbreviated as "gr" or "gro".

The continued use of these numbers in measurement and counting represents a continuation of the tradition of the duodecimal number system in everyday life and has encouraged groups such as the Duodecimal Society of America to advocate for a wider use of such a numbering system in place of decimal.

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Usage examples of "gross".

The pure and sublime idea which they entertained of the Supreme Being escaped the gross conception of the Pagan multitude, who were at a loss to discover a spiritual and solitary God, that was neither represented under any corporeal figure or visible symbol, nor was adored with the accustomed pomp of libations and festivals, of altars and sacrifices.

Ptolemy Apion, bastard son of horrible old Ptolemy Gross Belly of Egypt, has just died in Cyrene.

The later Pythagoreans and Platonists seem to have believed that the same numerical ethereal body with which the soul was at first created adhered to it inseparably during all its descents into grosser bodies, a lucid and wingy vehicle, which, purged by diet and catharms, ascends again, bearing the soul to its native seat.

The Catalogue of Historical Material stored at Atacama gives a list of 2,362,705 books and gross files, up to date, and of these over 182,000 deal exclusively or largely with the causation of the war.

There are a hundred gross files of newspaper cuttings at Atacama, and some of the most amazing are reproduced in the selected Historical Documents.

When celiotomy is performed for ruptured bladder, in a manner suggested by the elder Gross, the mortality is much less.

In dem ersten Fenster, der anstossenden Buchhandlung zunaechst, steht auf einer Staffelei ein grosses Bild, vor dem die Menge sich staut: eine wertvolle, in rotbraunem Tone ausgefuehrte Photographie in breitem, altgoldenem Rahmen, ein aufsehenerregendes Stueck, eine Nachbildung des Clous der grossen internationalen Ausstellung des Jahres, zu deren Besuch an den Litfasssaeulen, zwischen Konzertprospekten und kuenstlerisch ausgestatteten Empfehlungen von Toilettenmitteln, archaisierende und wirksame Plakate einladen.

She approached me and offered herself to me for money in the grossest and coarsest fashion.

While geneticists made their gross observations, cytologists began to elucidate the microscopic ecosystem of the cell.

Moreover, the Deconstructionists are playing the Ritz, one of the modeling agencies is sponsoring a bash for Muscular Dystrophy at Magique and Natalie has cornered a chunk of the Gross National Product of Bolivia.

This gross wind developed from a subtle one which in turn developed from the very subtle wind mounted by the all empty mind of clear light.

Court upheld the power of New York, in computing its estate tax, to include in the gross estate of a domiciled decedent the value of a trust of bonds managed in Colorado by a Colorado trust company and already taxed on its transfer by Colorado, which trust the decedent had established while in Colorado and concerning which he had never exercised any of his reserved powers of revocation or change of beneficiaries.

Thirdly, it is intrinsically absurd to suppose that an institution of gross immorality and cruelty could have flourished in the most polite and refined Greek nation, as the Eleusinian Mysteries did for over eighteen hundred years, ranking among its members a vast majority of both sexes, of all classes, of all ages, and constantly celebrating its rites before immense audiences of them all.

Her features were finely shaped, not Ethiope gross, and her body was small and slight but well formed.

Thus, the psychic is, and can be, the home of anything from initital meditation experiences to paranormal phenomena, from out-of-the-body experiences to kundalini awakenings, from a simple state of equanimity to full-blown cosmic consciousness: they are all the subtle realm breaking into the gross realm at the common border: the psychic.