Results for gain

Definitions of gain:

part of speech: noun

That which is gained: profit:- opp. to LOSS.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To improve or make progress; increase; advance.

part of speech: verb

To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain by effort; to procure; to have profit or advantage; to reach or arrive at.

part of speech: verb transitive

To obtain, as profit or advantage; earn; win; arrive at.

part of speech: verb transitive

To obtain by effort: to earn: to be successful in: to draw to one's own party: to reach: ( New Test.) to escape.

part of speech: noun

Profit; advantage obtained; interest.

part of speech: noun

Advantage; proflt; opposite to loss.

Usage examples for gain:

• There would never, never be another chance for his people to gain a new home. "The Black Star Passes", John W Campbell

• She is only trying to gain time. "Catherine de' Medici", Honore de Balzac

• He had never tried to gain her love, and she hated him more and more. "Young Folks' History of England", Charlotte M. Yonge

• I would wait twenty years to gain you in the end. "A Question of Marriage", Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey