fast-growing

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English

Adjective

fast-growing (comparative faster-growing, superlative fastest-growing)

  1. Alternative form of fastgrowing.
    • 1960 June, “British cars go by rail: I-The L.M.R. wins new Anglo-Scottish traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 335:
      A fast-growing traffic of which British Railways should receive a larger share is the delivery of new private cars from manufacturer to local dealer.
    • 2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times:
      The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.
    • 2021 February 24, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Thousands of jobs as HS2 feeds West Midlands growth”, in RAIL, number 925, page 8:
      The Mayor said that before the pandemic, the West Midlands was the fastest-growing regional economy, with opportunities offered by HS2 key to that.

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