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gainers

gainers is the plural of gainer.

Meaning of gainer

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
  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

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Proper noun capitalized: Gainers

Gainers

  1. (plural) plural of Gainer

Phrases with gainers

Questions about gainers

What is gainers the plural of?
Gainers is the plural of gainer.
What part of speech is gainers?
Gainers is a proper noun.

Words near gainers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gainers (page history and authors); Gainers (page history and authors); gainer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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