gross
- noun
- /ɡroʊs/
- Specialized
- You'll be paid a percentage of the gross of all the races you win.
- gross income
- adjusted gross
- gross versus net
First dollar gross, not back end, not net, none of that stuff.
- First dollar gross, not back end, not net, none of that stuff.
- And so influencers at scale are really interesting because nobody everyone's focused on gross versus net.
- And it had surpassed everyone's expectations in terms of the grosses and, and, and, and the, the audience feedback.
Examples
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The company's gross for the quarter exceeded projections by a significant margin.
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Though it only cost $68,000 to make, the gross for the filmmakers was in the millions.
Blog text (26) -
A million dollars is more than the gross of your last film.
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A movie is successful if the domestic gross covers the production budget plus half again.
Blog text (17) -
I get no salary, but ten percent of the gross.
Fiction book (1999) -
And lastly, what's your gross Commission income?
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The first week's gross was $2,215,781, over two-thirds of which it earned on its opening weekend.
Blog text (12) -
I cleared $60,000 in 18 months, earning $65,000 gross per year.
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Last year, the film generated a gross of over $500 million worldwide.
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After the event, we reported a gross income of $10,000 before any expenses.
Synonyms
The whole amount you get when you add numbers together
Money a business gets from sales before paying costs
Total money a business gets from sales before costs are taken away
Total money a business gets from selling goods or services before taking away returns and discounts
Total money received before costs are taken away
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year
- Archaic
Total value of all goods and services made by a country's people and companies in one year
- Specialized
Part of sales left after paying the cost to make the goods, shown as a percent
- Specialized
The money left from sales after taking away the cost to make goods, before other costs like rent or taxes
- Specialized
Total money a business gets from selling goods or services before taking away returns and discounts
- Specialized
The amount of money a company keeps from sales after paying for goods, shown as a percent of sales
- Specialized
The total value of all property and money a person owns when they die before debts are paid
- Specialized
Total value of goods and services a country makes measured with prices kept the same over time
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gross (total money before deductions) comes from the old French word gros meaning 'whole' or 'large', so gross refers to the 'whole' amount of money before anything is taken away.