gainer

[ UK /ɡˈe‍ɪnɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡeɪnɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who gains weight
  2. a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits)
    she was clearly the gainer in that exchange
  3. a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board
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How To Use gainer In A Sentence

  • Laptop, valued at RMB 4999, 60 gainer list is drawn out by lucky draw.
  • He is a "bargainer": he has an implicit agreement with majority white America to not hold racism against them in exchange for it not holding his being black against him. "These accusations that Bill Clinton is a racist I think is just wrong. I just don’t agree with it."
  • In gainers, auto shares rose as investors betted that sales will pick up in the second half of the year. Reliance Drags India Shares Lower
  • The gainers are the dishonest borrowers who plan to retreat into bankruptcy why worry about the interest rate if you do not plan to pay off? Archive 2005-03-01
  • The image of the boatmen as aggressive bargainers corresponds to a wider imagery that figures in depictions of the Orient as mischievous and conniving.
  • Although Gainer was in critical condition on Sunday, he was in stable condition on Monday at Foothills Hospital.
  • Narayan believes that bargainers with patriarchy, such as veiling women, are autonomous because, despite their choices being constrained by patriarchy, they can make genuine, reflective choices within these constraints. Feminist Moral Psychology
  • On the Nasdaq, losers beat gainers 2 to 1 as 447 million shares changed hands.
  • Henry pressed with the alacrity of a bargainer at the negotiating table.
  • BARGAIN [1] AND SALE, in English law, a contract whereby property, real or personal, is transferred from one person -- called the bargainer -- to another -- called the bargainee -- for a [v. 03 p. 0399] valuable consideration; but the term is more particularly used to describe a mode of conveyance of lands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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