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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, amassing, amassment, buildup, increase |
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| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquisition, winnings |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accrual, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, advancement, advantage, attainment, benefit, boost, buildup, cut, dividend, earnings, emolument, gravy, growth, headway, hike, improvement, income, increase, increment, lucre, payoff, proceeds, produce, profit, progress, receipts, return, rise, share, take, up*, upping, velvet*, yield |
| Antonyms: | expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition, growth |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, aggrandizement, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, burgeoning, cumulation, development, elaboration, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, gain, hike, incorporation, increment, inflation, intensification, maximization, merger, multiplication, optimization, raise, rise, spread, step-up, surge, swell, swelling, upgrade, upsurge, upturn, waxing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depletion, diminishment, loss, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | increment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small step toward gain |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, accrual, accrument, addition, advancement, augmentation, enlargement, increase, profit, raise, rise, supplement |
| Antonyms: | decrease, loss |
| Main Entry: | interest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | share, investment |
| Synonyms: | accrual, authority, bonus, claim, commitment, credit, discount, due, earnings, gain, influence, involvement, participation, percentage, piece, points, portion, premium, right, stake, title |
| Main Entry: | payback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | return |
| Synonyms: | accrual, accruement, compensation, gain, gate, income, interest, proceeds, profit, reciprocation, recompense, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, reward, take, yield |
| Main Entry: | return |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings, benefit |
| Synonyms: | accrual, accruement, advantage, avail, compensation, gain, gate, income, interest, lucre, proceeds, profit, reciprocation, recompense, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, requital, results, retaliation, revenue, reward, take*, takings, yield |
| Antonyms: | debt, payment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accessory, accrual, added, additional, additive, adjectitious, adscititious, anabatic, ascititious, ascriptitious, beblubbered, big, bigswoln, bloated, blowzy, bulbous, distended, dropsical, epactal, exaggerated, expanded, expansive, extra, fat, flabelliform, full-blown, full-formed, full-grown, gorbelly, gravid, hypertrophic, hypertrophied, increased, larger, obese, oedematous, on the increase, overgrown, patulous, phlogogenetic, pinguescent, planteric, pot-bellied, puffy, pulvinate, pursy, scaturient, subjunctive, sufflated, supervacaneous, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory, sway-bellied, swelling, swollen, tumid, turgescent, turgid, undiminished, wide-open, widespread, évasé
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| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
acquired, acquiring, acquisitive, advantageous, advectitious, gainful, lucrative, lucriferous, paying, proficuous, profitable, remunerative, tontine
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