Gainer

Quick meaning: Gainer is a noun meaning One who gains a profit or advantage.

Meaning

One who gains a profit or advantage.

More Meanings

1. One who puts on weight.
2. (diving, gymnastics, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.

Example Sentences

I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.

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.

… 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.

Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies had come to their senses and agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares.

Word Forms

• gainers

Related Words

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