The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large. ``A gross fat man.''
--Shak.A gross body of horse under the Duke.
--Milton. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
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Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
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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. Hence: Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive; as, a gross remark.
Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
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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.
Receipt \Re*ceipt"\ (r[-e]*s[=e]t"), n. [OE. receite, OF. recete, recepte, F. recette, fr. L. recipere, receptum, to receive. See Receive.]
The act of receiving; reception. ``At the receipt of your letter.''
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Reception, as an act of hospitality. [Obs.]
Thy kind receipt of me.
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Capability of receiving; capacity. [Obs.]
It has become a place of great receipt.
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Place of receiving. [Obs.]
He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.
--Matt. ix. 9. Hence, a recess; a retired place. [Obs.] ``In a retired receipt together lay.''
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A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
She had a receipt to make white hair black.
--Sir T. Browne. A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
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That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
Gross receipts. See under Gross, a.
Usage examples of "gross receipts".
So the master's accounting here says they're using the ratio of two point five of the gross receipts to costs whatever that means, seven million for Kiester and how many million for that stick of an actor Bredford with another three million for Anga Frika's tits and forty million more for advertising them?
Just as Quinn and McGreevy, Steve Pulaski, and Kim Foysie had done before them, on the morning of the sixteenth, the afternoon of the sixteenth, and the evening of the sixteenth, in the same way, Bern and Benetti concluded their commando operation with the signature of agreements with syndicate representatives, foreseeing the creation of four steering committees and of four other committees, which would supply the casinos that had just been bought back, for a five percent guarantee for the syndicates of the gross receipts of the establishments, and this for a thirty-year period.
The risk of a SWAT operation isn't justified when all we may end up getting them for is failure to get a business permit or for delinquent gross receipts taxes.
Her gross receipts of money, annually, from all sources, are placed by the New Orleans ’.
KING: We don't know that it did, because the gross receipts from around the country aren't all in and tabulated yet.
If audience reaction was as strong and as positive as Tina hoped, her financial future was assured, for her contract gave her two and one-half percent of the gross receipts, minus liquor sales, after the first five million.
And within twenty-four hours of receipt of their check, SMIPP paid into Howell (Venezuela)'s account at the Bank of Boston the amount they were due: gross receipts less taxes, stevedoring, and, of course, SMIPP's commission.