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51gross up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms gross up : present tense I/you/we/they gross up he/she/it grosses up present participle grossing up past tense grossed up past participle grossed up to increase an amount of money recorded in financial… …
52gross — /grəυs/ adverb with no deductions ● My salary is paid gross. ■ verb to make a gross profit ● The group grossed £25m in 1999 …
53gross — [gros] mod. crude; vulgar; disgusting. (Slang only when overused.) □ This food is gross! □ What a gross thing to even suggest …
54gross — [14] Gross comes via Old French gros from late Latin grossus ‘large, bulky’, a word of unknown origin (not related to German gross ‘large’). Its association with literal physical size has now largely died out in English, in the face of a growing… …
55gross — 1. adjective a) Disgusting. But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure. 1874: Dodsley et al …
56Gross Up — A practice usually in reference to an employer reimbursing a worker for the taxes paid on some portion of their income, usually from a one time payment such as relocation expenses. In other words, if an employee is promised $5,000 for relocation… …
57gross — adj Disgusting. Oh, gross! You aren t going to eat that fish with the head on it, are you? 1970s …
58gross — adj disgusting, distasteful. An Americanism of the mid 1960s, particularly popular among teenage girls. It is a fashionable usage of the standard term (from Latin grossus, meaning thick, via French and Middle English) in its sense of exces sive,… …
59gross — I. a. 1. Large, big, bulky, great. 2. Dense, thick. 3. Coarse, rough, rude, unrefined, unseemly, unbecoming. 4. Indelicate, sensual, impure, vulgar, low, broad. 5. Enormous, flagrant, shameful, outrageous, grievous, aggravated. 6. Palpable,… …
60gross up — To convert a net amount into its equivalent gross amount. For example, an amount payable net of 17.5% value added tax would be grossed up to the amount payable including 17.5% value added tax, i.e. by multiplying the net amount by 1.175 …
