Meaning of growth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
   countable, uncountable
2. Ellipsis of economic growth.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
3. Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns: a growth stock; a growth fund.
4. An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
   countable, uncountable
5. An increase in size, amount, or volume, usually as a result of an increase in the number of cells. Growth of an organism may stop at maturity, as in the case of humans and other mammals, or it may continue throughout life, as in many plants.
6. The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
   countable, uncountable
7. growth, especially owing to an increase in cell size. Cf. merisis. — auxetic, adj.
8. Something that grows or has grown.
   countable, uncountable
9. Obsolete. Medicine. the science of growth, especially applied to micro-organisms. Also called auxanology.
10. An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
    countable, uncountable
11. a hypothetical vital force, thought to control growth and the function of nutrition.
12. growth or motion in response to a chemical stimulus. — chemotropic, adj.
13. a cultivator or a person who grows things.
14. the formation and growth of an embryo. — embryogenic, embryogenetic, adj.
15. development or growth from within. — endogenicity, n. — endogenous, adj.
16. the growth of part of an organism in such a way that it overlays or surrounds another. — epibolic, adj.

Equivalents

Examples

“It may be that a free society as we have known it carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Liz Truss has promised Britons she has “got your back” and set out a plan for “growth, growth and growth” in a conference speech disrupted by protesters asking who voted for her plan.”

“Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.”

“Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins. These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies.”

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