gaining
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪnɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Verb
gaining
- present participle and gerund of gain
Noun
gaining (plural gainings)
- Gain; profit.
- 1807, The London Medical and Physical Journal:
- […] 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 […]