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gross

NOUN:	An amount or quantity from which nothing is left out or held back: aggregate, all, entirety, everything, sum, total, totality, whole. Informal : work (used in plural). Idioms: everything but (or except) the kitchen sink, lock, stock, and barrel, the whole ball of wax (or kit and caboodle) (or megillah) (or nine yards) (or shebang) . See PART.
VERB:	To make as income or profit: bring in, clear, draw, earn, gain, net², pay, produce, realize, repay, return, yield. See MONEY.
ADJECTIVE:	1. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar. See COURTESY, SMOOTH. 2. Having too much flesh: corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshy, obese, overblown, overweight, porcine, portly, stout, weighty. See FAT. 3. Conspicuously bad or offensive: arrant, capital, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank². See GOOD. 4. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang : raunchy. See DECENT. 5. Including every constituent or individual: all, complete, entire, total, whole. See PART.


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