Gain in a sentence as a noun

I thought the point was that Yahoo, a public company, was throwing away 30 million for no apparent gain.

You've made a mistake -- maybe, you won't really know for sure for years -- but you have an opportunity to gain experiences that others never will.

Those are great places to build your career and gain some credibility/savings/experience while society figures out where the future will be.

Today, this is changed somewhat and founders at times have opportunities to balance their risks along the way as they strike their bargains with the VCs.

Ultimately, the tone was that the risk was too great compared with the operational gain- almost like the soldier was too valuable to put in harm's way.

As if the definition of a psychopath is someone who exploits others for their personal power, satisfaction or gain.

I've been waiting and hoping for the anti-carousel movement to gain cultural traction among web developers for some time.

Gain in a sentence as a verb

Now we who have Internet access can gain endless listening opportunities from Internet radio stations in dozens of unlikely languages.

The headline might as well be a more Onionesque "After gaining power, politician turns out not to actually hold the strongly principled views he expressed while campaigning".I'd be surprised if Obama holds any of the views he expressed during his campaign.

Nearly every ******** job requires a BS degree, they employer just want to make the company staff looks "better educated"These "hot" majors are not really teaching any knowledge, but an easy way to grab a degree, so the students can gain their entry to various job titles.

Work, pain, and adversity are an integral part of life and it is no loss - indeed, it is great gain - to spend some years doing things you don't necessarily love if they help shape your character in a strong way and if they help you develop skill sets that you can later apply in a more optimal way.

If I am doing a desktop search for local files, it is not be expectation that that search will be transmitted to servers without my consent, and that it does so makes it spyware even if we don't also take into consideration that it is being done to track my interests for monetary gain in the form of referral links.

The 3Tap business model may or may not have withstood this legal challenge but the salient fact here is that CL faced a lot of uncertainty on the legal issues involved, meaning that it might ultimately have lost on its claims and further meaning that 3Tap's business model would serve as a ready-made way for third parties to gain unfettered access to the CL data, at least until CL were able to obtain a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit or an ultimate victory on its claims.

Gain definitions

noun

a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"

See also: addition increase

noun

the advantageous quality of being beneficial

See also: profit

noun

the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input

See also: amplification

noun

the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating

verb

obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden"

See also: derive

verb

win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance"

See also: acquire

verb

derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience"

See also: profit benefit

verb

reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

See also: reach make attain

verb

obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"

See also: advance

verb

rise in rate or price; "The stock market gained 24 points today"

See also: advance

verb

increase or develop; "the peace movement gained momentum"; "the car gathers speed"

See also: gather

verb

earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month"

See also: clear make earn realize realise

verb

increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising"