plusses

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of plus.

   The proposal had clear plusses, but the costs gave the board pause.

   He weighed the plusses against the drawbacks before signing the contract.

   Note

   Only the noun meanings of plus can be counted this way: positive quantities, assets or useful additions, and plus signs. The preposition (and; with) has no plural. In everyday prose the asset meaning dominates, usually weighed against drawbacks or costs. The same spelling also serves as the verb form, so the grammar of the sentence tells them apart: a determiner before it (the plusses, clear plusses) marks the noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of plus.

   Note

   Plus is a verb as well as a noun and preposition, and this form carries every verb meaning: adding, increasing, improving, selling an extra item with a purchase, putting a kind interpretation on something. The plain "add" meaning is informal. The most specialized is the feedback use: someone who plusses a colleague's draft offers suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms. Like the noun, it takes a direct object.

   Rather than tearing the pitch apart, she plusses it with two ideas for a stronger ending.

   The sales clerk plusses every phone order with a case and a charger.

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