Definition of Gain

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Definition of Gain

Gain

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.

That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.

The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.

To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living.

To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.

To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor.

To get, incur, or receive, as loss, harm, or damage.

To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.

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Gain Quotations

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gain Translations

gain in Afrikaans is verdien, wen, profyt, wins
gain in Danish is erhverv, fortjene, vinde
gain in Dutch is acquest, aanwinst, buit, prooi
gain in Finnish is voittaa
gain in French is gagner, produit
gain in Italian is prodotto
gain in Latin is lucrum, mereo, praeda, acquiro
gain in Portuguese is ganho, ganhar
gain in Spanish is provecho, fruto

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