gross
adjective
without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net).
had been grossing
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past perfect progressiveof gross.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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Plywood had been grossing more than $1,000,000 annually for seven years when in 1932 Seattle bankers asked Ottinger to take over a big plywood mill that faced bankruptcy.
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