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gainings

gainings is the plural of gaining.

Meaning of gaining

Noun

gaining (plural gainings)

  1. Gain; profit.
    • […] yet, when the Doctor was about it, he might as well have told the public, that my gainings were annually thirty thousand, instead of three […]1807, The London Medical and Physical Journal

Questions about gainings

What is gainings the plural of?
Gainings is the plural of gaining.

Words near gainings in the dictionary

  1. gaining time
  2. gaining traction
  3. gaining twist
  4. gaining twists
  5. gaining weight
  6. gainings
  7. gainless
  8. gainlessly
  9. gainlessness
  10. gainlier
  11. gainliest

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