0 to increase in size or amount, or to become more advanced or developed: --
2 to increase in size or amount, or to allow or encourage something to increase in size or to become more advanced or developed: --
3 to provide a plant with the conditions it needs to develop, or to develop from a seed or small plant: --
4 to develop gradually, or to start to do something gradually: --
[ + to infinitive ] She has grown to like him.
[ L ] I grew too old to be interested.
5 to increase in size or amount, or to become more advanced or developed: --
to grow rapidly/steadily/significantly
grow at a rate of sth Sales have grown at a rate of 16.2% annually since 2008.
grow from sth to sth The number of stores in the town has grown from 80 to over 150.
grow by sth The labour force is expected to grow by 2% next year.
The company is exploring the idea of acquisitions as a way to grow.
If the motivation to help parents is love, why should a growing level of welfare state spending crowd out family solidarity ?
If these inferences from theory are correct, then we would expect that family solidarity should not decline in response to a growing welfare state.
Although all draft animals can obtain nourishment from grass growing on the sides of roads, horses and mules must receive supplemental grain when working.
Coming here, my children are growing in a dini [religious] mahol [environment].
A growing body of evidence suggests that temporal information processing controls many aspects of human behaviour, including language.
An important factor in the discussions was the researchers' growing awareness of the importance of the historical context of protohistoric settlement systems.
The scale effect entails that in a growing economy emissions tend to increase (at given emission intensities and a given industrial structure).
Figure 1(a) shows the population growing linearly through time.
