Meaning of swell the ranks | Babel Free

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To add significant numbers of members (to a group).

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“All through the Empire the unskilled labourer is the one who feels the stress of hard times, when they do come, the most, and it is this class that goes very largely to swell the ranks of the unemployed.”

“Virtually all of them will swell the ranks of law-abiding, industrious, self-sufficient and successful young Americans, while the numbers among the wayward lawless, dependent, and destitute are noticeably reduced.”

“To these must, accordingly, be added some one hundred more companies, not qualifying for consolidation, but which, nevertheless, swell the ranks of the Generali Group-owned companies.”

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