Usually means: Acquires or understands something; receives.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. gets: Merriam-Webster
  2. gets: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gets: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gets: Vocabulary.com
  5. Get's, Gets, get's, gets: Wordnik
  6. gets: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gets: Wiktionary
  8. gets: Dictionary.com
  9. gets: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. GETS, Gets(), Gets: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. gets: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. gets: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gets: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gets: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gets: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GETS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. gets: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gets: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gets: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See get as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Get)

verb:  (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
verb:  (transitive) To receive.
verb:  (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
verb:  (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
verb:  (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to do.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
verb:  (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
verb:  (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
verb:  (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
verb:  (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
verb:  (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
verb:  (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
verb:  (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
verb:  (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
verb:  (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
verb:  (transitive) To find as an answer.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
verb:  (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
verb:  (transitive) To getter.
verb:  (now rare) To beget (of a father).
verb:  (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
verb:  (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
verb:  (euphemistic) To kill.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
verb:  (transitive) To measure.
verb:  (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
noun:  (dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
noun:  Lineage.
noun:  (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
noun:  (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
noun:  (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
noun:  A member of the Getae.
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