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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*, velvet*, yield, upping |
| Antonyms: | expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | acquire, win |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, advance, ameliorate, annex, attain, augment, benefit, boost, bring in, build up, capture, clear, collect, complete, consummate, earn, enlarge, enlist, expand, fulfill, gather, get, glean, grow, harvest, have, improve, increase, land, make, net, obtain, overtake, parlay, perfect, pick up, procure, produce, profit, progress, promote, rack up*, reach, realize, reap, score*, secure, succeed, make a killing, move forward, win over |
| Antonyms: | exhaust, forfeit, lose, miss, pass, spend, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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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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| Main Entry: | accomplish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | succeed in doing |
| Synonyms: | achieve, arrive, attain, bring about, bring off, carry out, conclude, consummate, do, effect, finish, fulfill, gain, hit*, manage, perform, produce, pull off*, rack up*, reach, realize, score*, win, do a bang-up job, do justice, do one proud, do the trick, get someplace, get there, make hay, make it, nail it, put it over, sew up, take care of |
| Notes: | achieve means 'to bring to a successful conclusion' (literally French 'to bring to a head') and accomplish means 'to perform fully'; the completion of achievement is more comprehensive |
| Antonyms: | abandon, fail, nullify, relinquish, give up, not finish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accumulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, cache, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, hoard, incorporate, increase, lump*, mass, pile*, procure, profit, rack up*, round up*, stockpile, store, swell, unite, bring together, clean up*, cumulate, draw together, heap together, load up, make a bundle, make a killing, pile up*, roll up*, scare up, stack up, store up |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | achieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring to successful conclusion; reach a goal |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, acquire, actualize, attain, bring about, bring off*, bring to pass, cap, carry out, close, complete, conclude, consummate, deliver, discharge, dispatch, do, earn, effect, enact, end, execute, finish, follow through, fulfill, gain, get, manage, negotiate, obtain, perfect, perform, procure, produce, rack up*, reach, realize, resolve, score, seal, settle, sign, solve, win, wind up, work out, carry through, earn wings, effectuate, get done, see through |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose, miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acquire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | obtain or receive |
| Synonyms: | access, achieve, amass, annex, attain, bring in, buy, catch, collect, cop*, corral*, earn, gain, gather, get, grab, have, hustle, land, pick up, procure, promote, rack up*, secure, snag*, take, wangle*, win, get hands on, get hold of, latch onto, lock up, scare up, take possession of |
| Antonyms: | fail, forfeit, forgo, lose, relinquish, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | achieve, accomplish |
| Synonyms: | acquire, arrive, bring off, come through, complete, cop*, earn, effect, fulfill, gain, get*, grasp, hit, obtain, procure, promote, pull off*, rack up, reach, realize, reap, score, secure, snag, succeed, unzip, win, accede to, arrive at, get fat, get hands on, get there, glom onto, latch onto, make it |
| Antonyms: | abandon, desert, fail, forfeit, give in, lose, miss, surrender, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | booty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loot |
| Synonyms: | boodle, gain, goods, haul*, plunder, spoils, swag, pickings, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | breakthrough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advance, progress |
| Synonyms: | boost, development, discovery, find, finding, gain, hike, improvement, increase, invention, leap, progress, quantum leap*, rise, step forward |
| Antonyms: | step back, step backward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bring in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a profit |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, bear, bring, cost, earn, fetch, gain, get, gross, make, pay, produce, realize, return, sell, yield, be worth |
| Antonyms: | decrease, lose |
| Main Entry: | buildup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, advertising, enlargement, escalation, expansion, gain, growth, heap, hype, increase, load, mass, plug, promotion, publicity, puff*, stack, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | decrease, destruction, reduction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | capitalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | benefit from situation |
| Synonyms: | exploit, gain, obtain, profit, realize, subsidize, take advantage of, avail oneself of, make capital of |
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, coverage, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, wage, counterclaim, damages, defrayal, indemnification, quittance, recoupment, remittal, remittance, take-home |
| Antonyms: | damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | derive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deduce a conclusion |
| Synonyms: | acquire, arrive, assume, collect, determine, develop, draw, educe, elaborate, elicit, evolve, excogitate, extract, follow, formulate, gain, gather, get, glean, infer, judge, make, make out, obtain, procure, put together, reach, receive, trace, work out |
| Antonyms: | create, invent |
| Main Entry: | deserve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be entitled to |
| Synonyms: | be given one's due, be in line for, be worthy of, demand, earn, gain, get, get comeuppance, get what is coming to one, have it coming, have the right to, justify, lay claim to, merit, procure, rate, warrant, win |
| Main Entry: | dividend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one's share, profit |
| Synonyms: | allotment, allowance, appropriation, bonus, check, coupon, cut*, dispensation, extra, gain, gravy*, interest, lagniappe*, pay, portion, premium, prize, proceeds, reward, surplus, taste*, carrot*, divvy, guerdon, meed, remittance, returns |
| Antonyms: | loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | earnings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for work performed |
| Synonyms: | balance, bottom line*, emolument, gain, gate, groceries*, in the black, income, lucre, net, pay, payoff, proceeds, profit, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, reward, salary, salt*, stipend, wages, piece of the pie, take-home, takings |
| Antonyms: | debt, bills, losses, payout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | educe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring out, elicit |
| Synonyms: | come out, conclude, deduce, derive, develop, distill, drag, draw, draw out, evince, evoke, evolve, excogitate, extort, extract, gain, get, infer, milk*, obtain, procure, pull, reason, secure, wrest, wring, think out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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