Object

• film: The highest grossing new independent film of the last four weeks is... in 1 week.

• movie: Add into the equation the biggest grossing movies ever and you will never know what was the most watched movie ever.

• tour: The biggest, highest grossing, sellout tour ever hit Earl's Court last October.

• datum: Figure 3.10 shows the increases in pay, excluding overtime earnings, across the earnings distribution between 1998 and 2000 using grossed NES data.

Modifying Another Word

• nearly: Her 1993-4 tour grossed nearly $ 60m ( £ 33m ) with tickets selling even then for as much as $ 350.

Modifies a noun

• margin: Gross margin is the value of sales less the cost of goods sold.

• negligence: A weak case for a plaintiff is not gross negligence.

• indecency: Tony Page has two convictions for gross indecency, the more recent in 1995.

• income: Imagine putting a whole year's gross income into your pension!

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: A spokeswoman for the museum said, " Overall, we are all pretty gross.

• too: The alchemist is ' working upon things terrene or of too gross or heavy a substance ' .

• so: Also, of course, they're so gross.

• particularly: There are few prosecutions, suggesting that action is taken only when misconduct is particularly gross.

• really: It shows you are managing to diminish the really gross emotions that were swamping them!

Used with adjective complement

• pay: Note: Interest on all Accounts of £ 50,000 or more will be paid gross.

Preposition: per

• annum: From the 1 August 2004 this rate was increased to 4.75 % gross per annum.