Significado de growth em inglês

growth

noun

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/ɡroʊθ/

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B2 [ U ]

The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing in size:

A balanced diet is essential for healthy growth.

Plant growth is most noticeable in spring and early summer.

B2 [ U ]

an increase in the size or the importance of something:

The government is trying to limit population growth.

The rapid growth of opposition to the plan has surprised the mayor.

growth area Electronic publishing is a growth area (= an area of activity that is increasing in size and developing quickly).

Dicionário de Sinônimos: sinônimos, antônimos e exemplos

an increase

increaseThere has been an sharp increase in municipal taxes this year.
riseLast month saw a rise in the rate of inflation.
gainWe are not seeing the gains in productivity that we expected.
boostWe are hoping for a boost in sales this year.

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[ C ]

a lump (= a solid mass) growing on the outside or inside of a person, animal, or plant that is caused by a disease:

a cancerous growth on the liver

[ C or U ]

something that has grown:

Graham came back from the camping trip with a week's growth of beard on his chin.

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The report looks at economic growth in Europe and elsewhere.
The company has shown exceptional growth over the past two years.
Some types of antibiotic are used to promote growth in farm animals.
Any growth in unemployment is self-evidently a matter of extreme seriousness.
Measures should be taken to halt the speed-up in population growth.

SMART Vocabulary: palavras e frases relacionadas

Becoming bigger

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(Definição de growth do Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

growth | Dicionário Americano

growth

noun [ C/U ]

/ɡroʊθ/

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the process of developing or of increasing in size:

[ U ] Plant growth is most noticeable in spring.

[ U ] His budget is designed to promote economic growth in this country.

A growth is also tissue growing on the outside or inside of a person, animal, or plant which is caused by a disease.

(Definição de growth do Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

growth | inglês para Negócios

growth

noun [ C or U ]

/ɡrəʊθ/ us

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ECONOMICS

an increase in the ability of an economy or business to produce goods and services:

the growth of the Indian economy

We have had three successive years of economic growth.

growth rate/rate of growth The economy's growth rate is likely to slow.

revenue/job growth The steel company reported revenue growth of 55% last year on strong demand for its products.

annual/future/long-term growth

rapid/strong/impressive growth

slow/weak growth

sustainable/unsustainable growth

an increase in size, amount, degree, level, etc.:

the growth of sth The growth of farm spending has not been halted.

I have been impressed by the rapid growth of the fair trade movement.

growth in sth a 19% growth in internet use

The growth in the money supply was faster than expected.

FINANCE, STOCK MARKET

the increase in value of an investment over a long period:

Choose a trust that invests for growth rather than for income.

The investor should stay in for long-term growth.

a growth company

Ver também

capital growth
economic growth
ex-growth
external growth
high-growth
market growth
monetary growth

(Definição de growth do Dicionário Cambridge de inglês para Negócios © Cambridge University Press)

Exemplos de growth

growth

The second principal issue is the degree of economic growth's ' propoorness'.

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There is vast amount of ' popular ' wine literature, which prefaces its discussions of classed growths and great vintages with potted histories and geographies of wine.

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Figure 4a shows the growths of the per turbations obtained from the two-dimensional simulations.

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The exact nature of the dependence of growth's anisotropic tendencies on surrounding stresses is yet to be determined.

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Incremental strains measured by syntectonic crystal growths.

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He developed some small growths on his body that have never been diagnosed.

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