0 The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing in size:
Plant growth is most noticeable in spring and early summer.
The government is trying to limit population growth.
The rapid growth of opposition to the plan has surprised the mayor.
Electronic publishing is a growth area (= an area of activity that is increasing in size and developing quickly).
Graham came back from the camping trip with a week's growth of beard on his chin.
1 the process of developing or of increasing in size:
2 an increase in the ability of an economy or business to produce goods and services:
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.
rapid/strong/impressive growth
sustainable/unsustainable growth
4 the increase in value of an investment over a long period:
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.
The second principal issue is the degree of economic growth's ' propoorness'.
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.
Figure 4a shows the growths of the per turbations obtained from the two-dimensional simulations.
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