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gain
Part of speech: NounAdvantage; proflt; opposite to loss.
Part of speech: VerbTo obtain, as profit or advantage; earn; win; arrive at.
Part of speech: VerbTo improve or make progress; increase; advance.
Usage examples "gain":- And what do we gain by it all? - "The Great Hunger", Johan Bojer.
- I do not know his reason, but he knows it, and he has planned best to gain his purpose, whatever it may be. - "54-40 or Fight", Emerson Hough.
- Here would seem a great gain surely; but look at the other side of it. - "Equality", Edward Bellamy.