I. adjective
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a gross exaggeration (= very great and untrue )
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The figures in this report are a gross exaggeration.
a gross violation (= a very serious violation )
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They had committed gross violations of the law.
broad/sweeping/gross generalization
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a sweeping generalization based on speculation
gross domestic product
gross earnings (= before tax has been paid )
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You can usually borrow up to three times the value of your gross earnings per year.
gross income (= income before you have paid tax )
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The family’s gross income has increased by 5% this year.
gross insubordination
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Howell was fired for gross insubordination .
gross margin
gross misconduct (= very serious misconduct )
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She was found guilty of gross misconduct .
gross national product
gross profit ( also pre-tax profit ) (= before tax and costs are paid )
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The hotel group made a gross profit of £51.9 million in 2008.
gross profit
gross/net expenditure (= the total amount a company spends before/after any tax or costs have been taken away )
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Spending on research and development represents 13% of our gross expenditure.
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■ NOUN
distortion
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That is a gross distortion of the truth.
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Moreover, an obsessive focus on Caravaggio panders to fashion and is a gross distortion of history.
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This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 percent ratio that we expect.
earnings
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A similar picture emerges in relation to the distribution of gross earnings among female manual workers.
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The agent's percentage comes from the band's gross earnings at gigs.
exaggeration
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But unless there is gross exaggeration or fabrication of symptoms, these should not he described as Meadow's syndrome.
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The first sentence in that passage is, of course, a gross exaggeration .
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It was a gross exaggeration , but there was a grain of truth in it.
income
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Conversely, he knows that a drop in gross income will de-motivate.
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If adjusted gross income is high enough, large amounts of business expense deductions will be lost under this 2 percent formula.
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Thus, in the top tenth of pensioner income groups, social security contributes only a quarter of gross income.
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Companies putting up factories at Subic can import goods for free and pay only a 5 percent tax on gross income .
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Traditionally, management commission rates have ranged from 15 to 25 percent of the band's gross income .
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The full deduction would be available for couples filing jointly with adjusted gross incomes of up to $ 100, 000.
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So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more.
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If gross income is below £25,000, receipts and payments accounts and a statements of assets and liabilities will do.
indecency
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They were bailed to appear before Liverpool magistrates next month, when they will face charges of gross indecency .
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The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency .
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The appellant, Norman Mattison, was charged with committing an act of gross indecency with his co-defendant.
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The co-defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of committing an act of gross indecency with the appellant.
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And today, police confirmed the Bishop had been formally cautioned for an act of gross indecency .
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He was prosecuted, convicted of gross indecency and given a two-year conditional discharge in November 1996.
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After retiring the jury returned with a notice asking whether the co-defendant was charged with gross indecency with the appellant only.
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This act of gross indecency provoked stern disapproval from the tour guide.
interest
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Only people whose total income is less than their personal allowances are allowed to register for gross interest payments.
investment
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Where no allowance is made for this depreciation in the calculation of investment , the resulting figure is called gross investment.
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Take an investment of £1,000 achieving a gross investment return of 7 percent a year.
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Specifically, where I t gross investment in the current year; b and c constant coefficients.
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In real terms, gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983.
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Until April 1971 public expenditure included spending by central and local government and gross investment by the nationalized industries.
margin
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It is really an accounting problem, and a balance must be struck between channel expense, profit and gross margins .
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The gross margin was 20. 7 percent in the fourth quarter.
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These machines have a gross margin of 50 percent.
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It blamed lower holiday sales, crimped gross margin , stormy weather and higher costs.
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The manufacturer using longer channels will have relatively lower gross margins , coupled with lower channel expenses.
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But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins .
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In the year-ago first quarter, gross margin was 50.8%.
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A gross margin of $ 62, 500 is anticipated on $ 250, 000 in sales.
misconduct
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We usually treat physical violence towards others as gross misconduct and this could result in summary dismissal.
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In any case of gross misconduct no notice or pay would be due.
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An employer need not give any notice if the employee's conduct constitutes gross misconduct justifying instant dismissal.
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He was suspended from duty and then, in November, found guilty of gross misconduct .
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The employers learned of the letters and summarily dismissed the employees for gross misconduct .
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He was dismissed for gross misconduct , which seems to have centred on drug taking and homosexual activities.
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There was a contractual term dealing with summary dismissal for gross misconduct .
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Mrs Jonker, of Southport, said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings.
negligence
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No coach- or cart-horses, subject to hard work and gross negligence and ignorance were likely to be presented.
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No. 177, 1989, proposed to abolish manslaughter by gross negligence .
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The term gross negligence was never defined in the cases.
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Examples help to show the distinction between carelessness and gross negligence .
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Omissions cases falling within manslaughter by recklessness or gross negligence have also been set apart from cases of positive acts.
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If so, the law has been extended from gross negligence to carelessness.
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A manslaughter conviction would require proof of recklessness or, possibly, gross negligence .
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Even after Seymour gross negligence and recklessness are used interchangeably.
pay
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In both cases your gross pay will be as normal, unless you have exhausted the full sickness allowance.
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It shows their tax code number and details of their gross pay and tax deducted to date.
profit
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This represents a difference or rather gross profit of 65p per dozen or £14.98 per bird over the same period.
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Sales less cost of sales yields a gross profit of $ 350.
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The possibility of a high gross profit margin. 6.
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Certainly one of the most important and most sensitive variables to be estimated is the gross profit margin.
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However, gross profit was down only £2m to £94m.
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The difference between sales and cost of sales is the gross profit which is distributed as tax and dividends.
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Water Assessment 1992 was an excellent year for oceanographic and water related work, with a gross profit significantly ahead of budget.
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A particular case that I remember was the client's stock calculations geared to achieving the required gross profit percentage.
receipt
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These clauses give the talent a percentage of the movie's gross receipts .
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They will report back the general sentiment on sales tax, gross receipts tax, business transaction tax.
revenues
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Adjustments to 1991's figures have been made wherever possible to reflect gross revenues .
violation
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It would be a gross violation to carry out noisy or even physically energetic rituals or ceremonial activities at them.
wage
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However, from the capitalists' point of view it is gross wages that are computed as costs.
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Firms still choose the quantity of labour demanded to equate the gross wage to the marginal value product of labour.
weight
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That would be about sixty pounds from a side of 300 pounds gross weight of medium yield grade.
yield
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The current gross yield is about 5.46 percent gross.
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Initial gross yield is estimated at 6.6%.
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At the initial offer price for the unit trust of 50p, the estimated gross yield is 6.25%.
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They range from 8.10 percent to 9.68 percent and the weighted average gross yield is over 8.5 percent.
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Estimated gross yield at 100p is 4.5% a year.
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a gross income of $150,000
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Brad threw up on the floor at the party. It was really gross .
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My gross annual income, before tax, is just over £18,000.
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Ooh, gross ! The dog just threw up on the carpet!
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The gross weight of the package is 10 kilos, including the packaging.
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The company's gross earnings were up $12 million over last year.
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By contrast, the gross margin on an alternative remedy is typically 30 percent, Toth said.
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Dini said inflation was kept to a moderate pace during the year, even as gross domestic product rose 3 percent.
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In the mid-1970s, public spending peaked at over 49 percent of our gross national product.
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Obviously you get more used to it the more often you do it, but it's still pretty gross .
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That factory turned out to be a short-lived exercise and a gross waste of Government money.
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The expected gross initial yield is 6.5%.
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Various tests suggested gross retardation by the end of the first year.
II. adverb
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She earns about $100,000 a year gross .
III. verb
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■ ADVERB
up
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These are combined to give an overall requirement which is grossed up for tax and converted into the local currency.
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With the associated tax break, the promised returns could gross up into handsome rewards.
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Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up .
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A correction factor was then applied, as before, to gross up for the entire Scotch Whisky industry.
■ NOUN
million
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I hoped that it would gross $ 40 million because the movie cost 34.
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Combination stores may gross $ 8 million or more in sales annually.
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The theater currently grosses $ 14 million a year, $ 900,000 of which goes to the city.
product
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Tourism is our second biggest contributor - after North Sea oil - to gross domestic product .
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If you gross over $100,000, you should consult a good tax accountant.
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Jack grosses $58,000 a year, but he has to pay taxes and health insurance out of that.
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The animated film "Jungle Book" grossed $7.7 million.
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Walmax, a California superstore, grosses more than eight million dollars annually.
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He was trying to gross me out.
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Hoffert said the business grossed about $ 285,000 last year, and will do better in 2000.
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If it grossed 40 with video and everything, then they'd have made a good profit.
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If you found the opening pitch a bit over the top, the follow-up would gross you out completely.
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The theater currently grosses $ 14 million a year, $ 900,000 of which goes to the city.
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Three years later, he had acquired a chain of theaters that grossed $ 10, 000 a week.
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With the associated tax break, the promised returns could gross up into handsome rewards.
IV. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gross of pencils
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Cats has made a gross of over $460 million in the United States alone.
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I just thought, you know, how much gross are they going to get?
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Keno accounted for 16 percent of its gross , or $ 421 million gross sales the past fiscal year.
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May you now dance in the streets and support a gross of towns!
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Sums of less than £25,000 earn 5.7 per cent gross , while sums of more than £25,000 earn 5.95 per cent gross.
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The average Kirby factory distributor grosses more than $ 1 million a year, he says, and many gross even more.
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The Economics Ministry said today gross domestic product probably shrank in the fourth quarter of 1995.
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The government will release a preliminary estimate of full-year gross domestic product tomorrow.
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Two years ago, an average gross margin might have been £200 / acre, he points out.