grossed
SayGROHSTUS/ɡɹoʊst/UK/ɡɹəʊst/
- 1Simple past and past participle of gross.
The film grossed over four hundred million dollars at the box office.
By December, the company had grossed twice its previous yearly total.
Note
A regular past form, made by adding -ed and used both alone (the film grossed $464 million) and after have or had (by December it had grossed twice that). The verb is transitive and almost always takes a sum of money as its object. That sum is the gross figure, everything taken in before any expenses are subtracted. So a film can gross a fortune and still lose money.
grossed is a form of gross
gross, verb: To take in a given total amount of money before expenses are deducted. Full entry
- Spelling
- gross → grossed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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