gainer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that gains
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Also called: full gainer. a type of dive in which the diver leaves the board facing forward and completes a full backward somersault to enter the water feet first with his back to the diving board Compare half gainer
Other Word Forms
- pregainer noun
Etymology
Origin of gainer
Example Sentences
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The S&P 500’s technology sector was the day’s biggest gainer, adding 1.8%, in what was a mixed day across sectors.
Dispersion, in this instance, means that the gap between the biggest gainers in the index and the biggest losers has grown unusually wide.
From MarketWatch
This was helped by a turnaround for several states that went from net losers to gainers, including Ohio, Minnesota and Michigan.
In the past decade, Stryker has outgrown its peers by 2.5 percentage points a year, so it is a share gainer.
From Barron's
Iron ore is amongst one of the largest gainers, while rallying copper prices are driving consolidation across the sector, they add.
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