gross
adverb/ɡrəʊs/
/ɡrəʊs/
- in total, before anything is taken away
- She earns £25 000 a year gross.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘thick, massive, bulky’): from Old French gros, grosse ‘large’, from late Latin grossus.Definitions on the go
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