gains

/ ɡeɪnz /

plural noun

1. profits or winnings

   ill-gotten gains

Example Sentences

Investors who leverage their bets with borrowed money supercharge gains in good times but get crushed in bad ones.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

It is usually a recipe for years of solid share gains.

Read more on Barron's

It now expects sales this year to decline by a low-single-digit percentage, compared with a previous estimate of gains of up to 2.7%.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

But if the Fed were to pause its rate-lowering campaign in December, or end its cutting cycle short of expectations, “that undercuts a key assumption of what’s been fueling the gains,” Calcagni said.

Read more on MarketWatch

Related Words

• cash 
• compensation 
• earnings 
• interest 
• livelihood 
• pay 
• proceeds 
• profit 
• revenue 
• royalty 
• salary 
• wage