to gross
57
4.4
- verb
- /ɡroʊs/
- Specialized
:
recaudar
- By 1971, the industry grossed approximately seven billion dollars a year.
- the film grossed
- grossed more
It made you realise like his movies have grossed billions.
- It made you realise like his movies have grossed billions.
Examples
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Ben Affleck's Argo stayed high on the chart, grossing $6.7 million to place No. 4.
Blog text (11) -
As a result, Miracle was one of Hollywood's top grossing films of the year, grossing $4.2 million worldwide.
Academic text (2017) -
Tomorrow, he'll play in a game that'll gross over a half a billion dollars.
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We're grossing high 8 figures this year.
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By his second or third year, he was grossing over a million dollars a year.
Blog text (9) -
The film was already nominated for ten awards and had grossed two hundred million.
Fiction book (1998) -
Currently I'm grossing between one point five and two million dollars a year.
Fiction book (1992) -
If your expenses are $40,000 a year, your writing business should gross at least $80,000 annually.
Academic text (2009) -
Reportedly made on a production budget of just $30,000, the film grossed an astonishing $248,639,099 at the worldwide box office.
Academic text (2017) -
This year, our new product is expected to gross over one million dollars.
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
24
3.5
The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a year
- Archaic
10
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
3
3.2
The money left from sales after taking away the cost to make goods, before other costs like rent or taxes
- Specialized
1
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
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
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gross (to earn a total amount) comes from the idea in gros of something 'large' or 'whole', so to gross is to bring in the total amount of money before costs or taxes are taken off.