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Webster 1913 Edition
Growth
1.
The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence;
as, the
growth
of trade; the growth
of power; the growth
of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth
. Shak.
2.
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Nature multiplies her fertile
growth
. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Growth
GROWTH
,Noun.
1.
Product; produce; that which has grown; as a fine growth of wood.2.
Production; any thing produced; as a poem of English growth.3.
Increase in number, bulk or frequency.4.
Increase in extent or prevalence; as the growth of trade; the growth of vice.5.
Advancement; progress; improvement; as growth in grace or piety.Definition 2025
growth
growth
English
Noun
growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
- Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.
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- (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
- (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
Synonyms
- (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
- (act of growing): development, maturation
- (something that grows or has grown): vegetation
- (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass
Antonyms
- (increase in size): contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
- (act of growing): nondevelopment
Derived terms
Terms derived from growth
Hyponyms
- (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor
Translations
increase in size
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act of growing
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something that grows or has grown
pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor
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