grossadjective, adverb
uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/C1 (in) total:
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- I earn £15,000 gross, but my net income is about £12,000.
- His gross annual income is over half a million pounds.
- This graph shows the gross domestic product of all the European countries.
- Tax is payable on the gross weight of the cargo.
- The label gives the gross and net weight of the product.
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Taxation
- capital gains tax
- capitation
- chargeable
- corporation tax
- custom
- indirect tax
- inheritance tax
- levy
- National Insurance
- octroi
- tax allowance
- tax avoidance
- tax break
- tax credit
- tax exile
- tax-deductible
- vat
- VATable
- welfare state
- withholding tax
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grossadjective
uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/gross adjective (UNPLEASANT)
informal extremely unpleasant:
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- ghastly
- grim
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- noxious
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- stinking
- wretched
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gross adjective (FAT)
extremely fat or large and ugly:
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- oversize
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- thumping
- walloping
- whopping
- yawning
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gross adjective (UNACCEPTABLE)
C1 [ before noun ] formal (especially in law) unacceptable because clearly wrong:
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Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- flawed
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- improper
- impropriety
- invalid 1
- irregular
- mis-
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
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grossverb [ T ]
uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/to earn a particular amount of money before tax is paid or costs are taken away:
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Taxation
- capital gains tax
- capitation
- chargeable
- corporation tax
- custom
- indirect tax
- inheritance tax
- levy
- National Insurance
- octroi
- tax allowance
- tax avoidance
- tax break
- tax credit
- tax exile
- tax-deductible
- vat
- VATable
- welfare state
- withholding tax
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Phrasal verb(s)
grossnoun [ C ]
uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/plural gross old-fashioned(a group of) 144
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Numbers: groups of things according to number
- baker's dozen
- brace
- companion
- couple
- dozen
- dyad
- pair
- score
- triad
- trinity
- trio
- twosome