0 present participle of gain --
1 to get something that is useful, that gives you an advantage, or that is in some way positive, especially over a period of time: --
The thieves gained entrance through an upstairs window that was left open.
The data exists all right - the difficulty is in gaining access to it.
She's certainly gained (in) confidence over the last couple of years.
From the late 19th century, European powers began to gain control of parts of the Ottoman Empire.
After you've gained some experience teaching abroad, you can come home and get a job.
[ + two objects ] It was her performances in Aida that gained her an international reputation as a soprano.
Alternative medicine has only just started to gain respectability in our society.
The mayor has gained a lot of support from the teacher's union.
3 If a clock or watch gains, it works too quickly and shows a time that is later than the real time: --
Men were also hired to build a sugar refinery and access road, then gaining work as refinery operatives and small cane farmers.
It suggests that people's social strategies for gaining access to productive resources acted as an important locus of change.
Hard antipaternalism is not sufficiently solicitous of the individual's good, the actual quality of life she succeeds in gaining.
The reader may be gaining an impression that this text is being written to criticise, not to compliment.
It has been argued that rhetoric can provide the manager with a psychoanalytically informed approach to gaining a better understanding of their organizational culture.
Gaining mastery over the challenges of the coast represents the next step in the development of tidal rice-growing technology.
The number of veterans who succeeded in gaining some degree of economic and social mobility is difficult to determine.
Responsiveness: as between the two main parties only, the ratio of the gaining party's seat share to its vote share.
