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gainer

UK/ˈɡeɪnə/US/ˈɡeɪnɚ/

gainer noun: one who gains a profit or advantage.

Noun

gainer (plural gainers)

  1. One who gains a profit or advantage.
    • … it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011
    • Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi
  2. One who puts on weight.
  3. (slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
    • I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.1961, Stanisław Lem, chapter 4, in Return from the Stars
    • Wiener went up so fast it did a gainer.2015, David Spade, Almost Interesting: The Memoir, HarperCollins, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Gainer

Gainer (plural Gainers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of gainer

Noun
pluralgainers
Proper noun
pluralGainers

Plural of gainer: gainers

Origin of gainer

From gain + -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).

Words formed from gainer

Questions about gainer

What does gainer mean?
Gainer means one who gains a profit or advantage.
What part of speech is gainer?
Gainer can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gainer?
Gainer is pronounced /ˈɡeɪnə/ (UK).
What is the plural of gainer?
The plural of gainer is gainers.

Words near gainer in the dictionary

  1. gained steam
  2. gained time
  3. gained traction
  4. gained weight
  5. gainedst
  6. gainer
  7. gainers
  8. Gaines
  9. Gaines County
  10. Gainesboro
  11. gainesite

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