Usually means: Acquired or obtained through effort.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word gained:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. gained: Merriam-Webster
  2. gained: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gained: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gained, gained: Wordnik
  5. gained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gained: Wiktionary
  7. Gained, gained: Dictionary.com
  8. gained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Gained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. gained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. gained: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gained: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. gained: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gained: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. gained: Legal dictionary
  3. gained: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gained: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gained: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gained: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gained: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gained: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gain)

verb:  (transitive) To acquire possession of.
verb:  (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition.
verb:  (transitive) To increase.
verb:  (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
verb:  (transitive) To reach.
verb:  To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
verb:  (intransitive) To put on weight.
verb:  (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
noun:  The act of gaining; acquisition.
noun:  The thing or things gained.
noun:  (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
adjective:  (obsolete or dialectal) Straight, direct; near; short.
adjective:  (obsolete or dialectal) Suitable; convenient; ready.
adjective:  (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
adjective:  (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
adverb:  (obsolete or dialectal) Straightly; quickly; by the nearest way or means.
adverb:  (dialectal) Suitably; conveniently; dexterously; moderately.
adverb:  (dialectal) Tolerably; fairly.
noun:  (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
noun:  A surname.
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