gross
IPA: grˈoʊs
noun
- Twelve dozen = 144.
- The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
- The bulk, the mass, the masses.
- A surname from Middle English, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English gros (“large”).
- A village in Nebraska, having a population of two as of 2010.
verb
- (transitive) To earn money, not including expenses.
adjective
- (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- (informal, Canada, US, Australia) Causing disgust.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- (archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
- (obsolete) Easy to perceive.
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