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Definition of Gainers
1. gainer [n] - See also: gainer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gainers
Literary usage of Gainers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mexico: Its Peasants and Its Priests: Or, Adventures and Historical by Robert Anderson Wilson (1856)
"The Priests gainers by the Independence.—Improved Condition of the Peons. ...
But the common people were the gainers ultimately by the expulsion of the ..."
2. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"... and folly, which has so long disgraced the Romish church, and which formed
the character of the middle ages. The clergy were gainers, ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"... till the Lords, and such gentlemen as are usually members of the House of
Commons, who have been the chief and almost only authors of, and gainers by, ..."
4. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"They could not be either gainers or losers by the event of the trial then
proceeding, and they eould not be considered as parties to the proceeding then ..."
5. Sophisms of Free-trade and Popular Political Economy Examined by John Barnard Byles (1912)
"Perhaps the candid reader will not now think it quite so certain, that if all
countries practised free-trade, all countries would necessarily be gainers. ..."
6. Contemporary Memoirs of Russia, from the Year 1727-1744 by Cristof Hermann Manstein (1856)
"The conclusion was, that they would not only be gainers in point of distance,
but that the stations would be more convenient in the matter of wood and water ..."
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