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单词 gross
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grossadjective, adverb

uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/

C1 (in) total:

A person's gross income is the money they earn before tax is deducted from it.
Once wrapped, the gross weight of the package is 2.1 kg.
She earns £30,000 a year gross.
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net adjective

More examples

  • 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.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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:

"Oh, gross!" she said, looking at the flies buzzing above the piles of dirty plates.

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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:

I'd put on ten kilos and felt gross in my bikini.

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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:

gross misconduct/indecency
a gross violation of justice

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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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Unsuitable and unacceptable

grossverb [ T ]

uk/ɡrəʊs/us/ɡroʊs/

to earn a particular amount of money before tax is paid or costs are taken away:

The film has grossed over $200 million this year.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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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Earning money

Phrasal verb(s)

gross sb out

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
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