plus
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
plus/plʌs/
▶preposition with the addition of.
■ informal together with.
▶adjective- 1 [postpos.] (after a number or amount) at least: $500,000 plus.
■ (after a grade) rather better than: B plus.
- 2 (before a number) above zero; positive.
- 3 having a positive electric charge.
- 1 short for plus sign.
■ a mathematical operation of addition.
- 2 informal an advantage.
– origin C16: from L., lit. ‘more’.
'plus' also found in these Oxford entries:
cost-plus
- eleven-plus
- four-dimensional
- gross national product
- ne plus ultra
- nonplus
- octuple
- pluperfect
- plural
- pluri-
- plus ça change
- plus fours
- plus-one
- plus sign
- plus-size
- plus twos
- positive sign
- quadruple
- quintuple
- surplus
- unsigned
