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gain n
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profit; increase
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to gain market share
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to improve the number of products or services sold in (part of) a market
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gateway n
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a network point that acts as an entrance to another network
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to gather v
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to collect in one place
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gauge n
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a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity
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GB n
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gigabyte(s), coll: 'gig' or 'giga'; a unit of information equal to about one billion (2^30 = 1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes; syn: Gbyte, G-byte. (Upper case 'B' for byte and lower case 'b' for bit are not always followed and often misprinted. Thus, Gb may also refer to gigabyte.)
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generative adj
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1. having the ability to create or originate a new product; productive
2. productive, prolific; having the power of generating, propagating, originating or producing
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generic adj
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applicable to an entire class or group
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to get in on the act v
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to benefit from sth; to take advantage of sth; to make a fast buck
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to get pissed off (vulgar) v
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to get angry
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GHz n
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gigahertz, a billion of cycles/periods per second, a unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors
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to giggle v
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to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner
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gingerly adv
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bravely but carefully
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to give back in an embarrassment of riches v
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to recompense with undeserved, awkward wealth
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glitch n
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problem, anomaly, malfunction
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GMD n
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generative mechanical design
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goat n
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an animal which is related to sheep, which usually has horns, and which lives wild on mountains or is kept on farms to provide milk, meat, and wool
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gorgeous adj
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beautiful, attractive, pleasant, giving pleasure
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to govern v
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to regulate by means of authority
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to grab so v
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to capture the attention or imagination of so; to catch so's eye
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grade point average n
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a method of computing a numerical value for letter grades received in school by assigning each a numeric value and averaging the numbers (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, E(/F)=0)
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to grant v
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to let sb have sth
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to grant permission v
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to licence; to allow
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grassroots adj
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fundamental; of or involving the people as constituting a fundamental group
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greenfield adj
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(related to) businesses, projects and applications that can be realised from scratch without having to consider restrictions and constraints imposed by previously established ones
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gross labour costs (BE)/ gross labor costs (AE) n
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labour costs before any deductions; opposite: net labour costs
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grunt n
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unskilled worker
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guideline n
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a rule or principle that sets the standards for appropriate behaviour
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