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Main Entry:	net [net] Show IPA/nɛt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	profiting
Synonyms:	after deductions, after taxes, clear, excluding, exclusive, final, irreducible, pure, remaining, take-home, undeductible
Antonyms:	unprofitable

Main Entry:	net
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	capture
Synonyms:	bag, catch, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, hook, lasso, nab, trap
Antonyms:	free, let go, release

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	net
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	gain after expenses
Synonyms:	accumulate, bring in, clean up, clear, earn, make, profit, realize, reap
Antonyms:	gross

Example Sentences

Lott said it is important to focus on the net effect of concealed guns in reducing campus attacks.

Their commitment to openness and consensus has made the net what it is.

Net metering holds the potential to drastically reduce or eliminate electrical utility bills.

Lott said it is important to focus on the net effect of concealed guns in reducing campus attacks.

Their commitment to openness and consensus has made the net what it is.

Net metering holds the potential to drastically reduce or eliminate electrical utility bills.

The government's net neutrality compromise fell flat.

On the net is a plastic funnel, attached to a specimen cup, and a float.

My mom's apartment is worth less than that though and her net worth is several times mine at the moment.

Any country that had net imports lost gold to countries with net exports, and that angered politicians.

Lwin winds up and tosses a lead-weighted net over the spot where the dolphin has shown its tail.

The net result is there is more atmosphere at the equator than at the poles.

All of these things have the net effect of destroying the true learning that ought to be going on.

But again, as with other kinds of free trade, the net benefits will be significant.

Net neutrality attempts to fix a price for a good that would otherwise rise a fall with a market.

He'd collect the blind river fish with a net and put them in the plastic dish in the foreground.

China will be a net importer of students, instead of an exporter as it is now.

Unfortunately, the sensible goal of rebalancing towards net exports can lead to dubious policy prescriptions.

WE are back again to the days when black net was worn over a colored silk slip.

Net tuition and fees are the sum of total tuition and fees.

Larsen, is a well-built man who carries a big white net as comfortably as many men carry a briefcase.

The widely held view in tennis is that it's a lot harder to come to the net to finish points.

Total net increase/decrease after adjustment for inflation.

The more interesting question is whether there is any economic difficulty in combining immigration and a social safety net.

For centuries, researchers have known that clouds of neutral particles can sometimes gain a net charge.

Many salmon are raised in net pens, which allow fish waste, chemicals and.

Before the crisis, businesses were net borrowers, and to the extent that they preferred to rely on internal.

Cast the net widely for teaching jobs, see what offers come through, and go from there.

Quite how wide a net the new law will cast is not clear.

But these provisions still do not cast a wide enough net.

The sun does a great job of illuminating the net tooa spectacular photo.

Firms have been net savers for the odd year in the past, but a run of several years is highly unusual.

If fish don't eat the food within a few minuteswe fish net it out out if the tank right away.

Daddy would spend the day casting his net and fishing while us young' uns would crab with our homemade chicken neck bait lines.

It is likely that net migration will fall a bit as government measures are fully implemented.

The net impact of trade on domestic manufacturing sales can therefore be measured simply by the manufacturing trade balance.

Never before has the guardian of the world's main reserve currency been its biggest net debtor.

And if warming antarctic temperatures result in a dramatic increase in precipitation, the net effect is zero.

When you look at how the mortality rates plummet with the simple act of giving out a net.

With no net buy-backs, they will have to come up with another line of reasoning.

Then it exploded all over the net that in fact there had been one.

The bulk of its net foreign-currency receipts now comes from capital inflows, not the current-account surplus.

It was chance to get on the net and found your column which is quite interesting to read.

It's not every day that a living fossil shows up in a fisherman's net.

Main Entry:	acquisition
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	something obtained, received
Synonyms:	accomplishment, achievement, allowance, annuity, award, benefit, bonus, commission, dividend, donation, earnings, fortune, gain, gift, grant, income, increment, inheritance, net, premium, prize, proceeds, profit, remuneration, return, reward, riches, salary, security, wages, wealth, winnings
Notes:	acquisition is a material possession while an acquirement is a personal skill or knowledge that one gains

Main Entry:	ambush
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	lie in wait; attack
Synonyms:	ambuscade, assail, assault, box in, bushwhack, decoy, dry gulch, ensnare, entrap, hem in, hide, hook, jap, jump, lay for, lurk, net*, set trap, surprise, surround, trap, wait, waylay

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	amount
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	total
Synonyms:	addition, aggregate, all, bad news, body, budget, cost, damage, entirety, expense, extent, list, lot, net*, outlay, output, price tag, product, quantum, score, set-back, sum, tab, tidy sum, whole

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	arrest
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	take into authorized custody
Synonyms:	apprehend, bag, book, brace, bust, capture, catch, collar, detain, drop, gaff, get, glom, grab, hook, imprison, incarcerate, jail, kick, nab, nail, net, nick, pick up, pinch, pull in, pull, put the arm on, put the cuffs on, round up, roust, run in, secure, seize, sidetrack, snag, tab, tag*, take in, take prisoner, toss in jail

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	bag
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	catch
Synonyms:	acquire, apprehend, capture, collar, gain, get, hook, kill, land, nab, nail, net, seize, shoot, take, trap
Antonyms:	lose

Main Entry:	bottom line
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	indispensable content
Synonyms:	basis, conclusion, core, crux, determination, essence, fiber, final decision, fundamentals, income, key point, last word, loss, main idea, main point, main thing, meat and potatoes, name of the game, net, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, point, profit, reality, sum and substance, what it's all about, whole story

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