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What does gainst mean?

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Preposition
  1. (poetic) against
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The life insurers have booked decent gainst since the middle of last year, and the suggestion was that there was an element of profit taking.
It is gainst this background that the AAU has identified African Universities: Linkages with the Productive Sector as the theme for the 2009 African University Day.
Morgan gathers it and Farrell sends it back, England charging down the France clearance but not with the same result as gainst Scotland and Italy.
First he put his thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around.
The delay in issuing internal audit reports would militate a gainst the effectiveness of the internal audit function.
Four days later, his wife was granted a temporary restraining order a gainst Haughton r elated to domestic abuse in Milwaukee Co unty, Tushaus said.

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