Vad betyder expand på svenska och vad är definitionen av expand?

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expand betydelse and definition

0 to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way:
- The air in the balloon expands when heated.
- They expanded their retail operations during the 1980s.
1 to increase something in size, number, or importance:
- [ I ] The air in the balloon expands when heated.
- [ T ] They expanded their number of stores significantly in the 1990s.
2 to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way:
- expand into sth These companies need to expand into new markets because they have reached market saturation at home.
- expand rapidly/greatly/significantly
- expand the range/scope/capacity Supermarkets continue to expand the range of products and services offered in their outlets.
- expand a business/company/programme
- Production capacity could expand by up to 30%, thus bringing down prices.

I don't think we should expand our business in the current economic climate.
In their second album, the band tried to expand their stylistic range.
The college is not able to expand because of restrictive planning laws.
Their economy has expanded enormously, while ours, by contrast, has declined.
In their efforts to reduce crime the government expanded the police force.
Various representations thus coexisted in the early modern period, only to expand as time passed.
These paths for the robot can be determined easily by expanding our analysis to more cases.
The paradox is that welfare reform reduces the scale of government in one sense but expands it in another.