gaining

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪnɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ

Verb

gaining

  1. present participle and gerund of gain

Noun

gaining (plural gainings)

  1. Gain; profit.
    • 1807, The London Medical and Physical Journal:
      […] yet, when the Doctor was about it, he might as well have told the public, that my gainings were annually thirty thousand, instead of three […]

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