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What is a gainer?

What is a gainer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who gains a profit or advantage.
  2. One who puts on weight.
  3. (sports, slang) A diving (or gymnastics) maneuver (from a high-dive diving board or high diving platform) involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
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I myself, having settled up all my losings at roulette, was a gainer of fifty sovereigns or so.
On the contrary, I shall be a gainer by conferring an obligation in another quarter, not a pecuniary obligation of course.
The magnet also is the gainer by the reaction of the body which it magnetises.
However, she had given him her massive shoulders, so that he was in some sense a gainer by her after all.
The only gainer was the Premier League, which did very nicely from the auctions. BSkyB looks no less powerful than before.
If Japan joins whole-heartedly in the consortium, she may be the greatest gainer.

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