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gross
Adjective
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The gross amount is the total before you take away losses or expenses.
Her gross pay was $500, but then they took out $60 for tax.
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A gross violation or abuse is very bad and clearly wrong.
Leaving the bank unlocked was an act of gross carelessness.
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If something is gross is very unpleasant.
There was a gross smell coming from the broken pipe.
generation
Noun
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A generation, is all the people or things of about the same age.
My father belonged to a generation of travellers who saw the world before there was a McDonalds on every corner.
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A generation is the average time between one when group of people were born and when their children were born, roughly 20–30 years.
During previous generations, travel was not so easy.
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A class or type of objects usually developed from an earlier type.
A new generation of personal computers is about to hit the stores.
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Generation is the creation of something, often electricity.
The increase in new power generation has not kept up with demand for electricity.