gross
5
5.8
- noun
- /ɡroʊs/
- Archaic
- Did you order a gross of flowered socks?
- buy a gross
- sell a gross
- a gross of bluing
Examples
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I need to order a full gross of paper towels for the office.
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I have a gross of books that I want to read.
Blog text (12) -
Yeah, I need 700 gross from here for next Thursday.
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I can sell you 10,000 gross of those.
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I bought 100 gross of these babies in Canton.
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I'll order you up a gross of clones in the meantime.
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At need, you could produce, say, six gross of carpenter's nails if you wanted them, and you could make them in a dozen different sizes.
Fiction book (1997) -
A gross of beans is shipped to the lone remaining citizen of the ghost town of Pripyat.
Blog text (1) -
12 cans of talcum powder, 40 pounds of dried milk, one case of Pepsi, one gross of safety pins, 3 cases of canned corn.
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The store sells a gross of tennis balls at a discounted price.
Compounds
- Specialized
24
3.5
The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year
- Archaic
13
3.7
Total value of all goods and services made by a country's people and companies in one year
- Specialized
6
4.9
Part of sales left after paying the cost to make the goods, shown as a percent
- Specialized
5
3.2
The money left from sales after taking away the cost to make goods, before other costs like rent or taxes
- Specialized
3
2.8
Total money a business gets from selling goods or services before taking away returns and discounts
- Specialized
1
4.1
The amount of money a company keeps from sales after paying for goods, shown as a percent of sales
- Specialized
1
8.2
The total value of all property and money a person owns when they die before debts are paid
- Specialized
1
6.7
Total value of goods and services a country makes measured with prices kept the same over time
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Gross (a group of 144) comes from an old French word gros meaning 'large' or 'thick', so merchants called a big bundle of goods a 'gross' to show it was a large set of twelve dozen.