growth
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English
Etymology
From grow + -th. Compare Old Frisian grēd ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹoʊθ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɹəʊθ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊθ
Noun
growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian:
- 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.
- An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
- Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
- (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
- (antonym(s) of “increase in size”): contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
- (antonym(s) of “act of growing”): nondevelopment
Hyponyms
- (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor
Derived terms
Terms derived from growth
- bottom growth
- diauxic growth
- economic growth
- establishment growth
- exponential growth
- grand period of growth
- growth arrest line
- growth cone
- growth factor
- growth hacker
- growth hacking
- growth hormone
- growth medium
- growth mindset
- growth plate
- growth retardation
- growth-retarding
- growth ring
- growth spurt
- growth stock
- growthy
- logistic growth
- negative growth
- nerve growth factor
- old-growth
- old-growth forest
- organic growth
- outgrowth
- overgrowth
- second-growth forest
- spring growth
- undergrowth
- vascular endothelial growth factor
- zero growth
- zero population growth
Translations
increase in size
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act of growing
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something that grows or has grown
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pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor
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