grosses 1 of 2

noun

Definition of grossesnext
plural of gross
1
as in totals

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as in revenues

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grosses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of gross
as in earns

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grosses
  1. earns
  2. amounts
  3. receipts
  4. incomes
  5. wins
  6. realizes
  7. lands
  8. achieves
Verb
  • Anyone who earns at least $300 in a year and contributes to state disability insurance is eligible for the benefits.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • His son earns $703,000 from the ILA and the same local.
    Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of earns
Noun
  • The Lone Star politician is hot over Dallas voters looking at decriminalizing cannabis in small amounts.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • California did not experience large amounts of dry lightning during the summer.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of amounts
Noun
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hasn’t missed a beat so far, and should finish this weekend north of $390 million and will soon top $400 million in global receipts.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Paul Faith | Afp | Getty Images Ireland, which must hold a general election no later than March next year, is currently in the unusual position of running a budget surplus of several billion euros, partly due to the strength of corporate tax receipts.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of receipts
Noun
  • Folks with incomes under $50,000, 22 points for the Democrats.
    NBC News, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Retirement incomes are too low and labor is already heavily taxed, and the payroll tax is regressive.
    Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of incomes
Verb
  • Design what wins in context, and consider what stands out on the shelf.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Smith co-wrote six of the 18 songs — his road schedule kept him from writing more, but, as the Nashville dictum goes, the best song always wins.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of wins
Verb
  • This version was first recorded by Alice’s mother, Lorna Wu, and became a pop hit in the 1970s; over the course of the episode, Alice realizes that her mother’s version was, in fact, a spell, designed to keep the curse from destroying Alice’s life.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Durin the Elder, faced with this dread nightmare, realizes he’s been deceived and takes off the Ring.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of realizes
Verb
  • That’s either a blessing or a curse for whomever eventually lands the coveted job.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
  • At-the-money calendar spreads like this one are most profitable if the stock lands at the strike price on the expiration date.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of lands
Verb
  • Beautifully Broken also achieves the third-largest week, by units, for any country album in 2024, following Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The material achieves this by reacting strongly with the battery electrodes and suppressing processes that generate hydrogen.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of achieves
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