double-digitˌdouble-ˈdigit adjective [only before noun] especially American English 
Examples
double-digit inflation
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- Each is asking for more than a double-digit percentage increase.
- Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
- Peres enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over Netanyahu before the series of deadly attacks that began on Feb. 25.
- The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- The estimated maturity value given for your policy may have been based on double-digit growth rates.
- The point is that a double-digit differential can make quite a difference to pensioners' returns.
- This may sound reassuring, but the promised double-digit returns may not ensue.
- Tolbert made several crucial baskets as Eastern Michigan built a double-digit lead midway through the second half.
WORD SETS► Numbers
Collocationsadd, verbaddition, nounArabic numeral, nounarithmetic progression, nounbi-, prefixbillion, numbercalculate, verbcalculation, nouncardinal, nouncardinal number, nouncoefficient, nouncommon denominator, nounconstant, nouncube, verbcube root, nounD, noundecimal, noundecimal, adjectivedecimal point, noundemi-, prefixdenominator, noundigit, noundivide, verbdividend, noundivisible, adjectivedivision, noundivisor, noundouble-digit, adjectivedouble figures, nouneight, numbereighteen, numbereighth, adjectiveeighty, numbereleven, numberequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nouneven, adjectiveexponent, nounfactor, nounfactor, verbfactorial, nounfifteen, numberfifth, nounfifty, numberfig., figure, nounfive, numberforty, numberfour, numberfourteen, numberfourth, nounfraction, noungeometric progression, noungross, nounHCF, hundred, numberimproper fraction, nounindivisible, adjectiveinfinity, nouninteger, nounL, nounlogarithm, nounlowest common denominator, nounM, nounmedian, nounmedian, adjectivemillion, numbermultiple, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, noun-nd, suffixnegative, adjectivenine, numbernineteen, numberninety, numberninth, adjectiveNo., nos., nothing, pronounnought, numbernumber, nounnumeral, nounnumerator, nounnumerical, adjectiveO, nounoblique, nounone, numberordinal number, nounpi, nounplot, verbplus, prepositionpoint, nounpositive, adjectiveprime number, nounproduct, nounproper fraction, nounproportion, nounquadr-, prefixquadrillion, numberquadruple, adjectivequotient, noun-rd, suffixroman numeral, nounroot, nounround, adjectivescore, numbersecond, numberserial number, nounset, nounsingle figures, nounsix, numbersixteen, numbersixty, numbersquare, nounsquare, verbsquared, adjectivesquare root, noun-st, suffixsubtract, verbsum, nountake, verbten, numbertenth, adjectivetertiary, adjectivetetra-, prefixthirteen, numberthirty, numberthousand, numberthree, numberthree-quarter, adjectivethreescore, numbertreble, determinertri-, prefixtrillion, numbertwelve, numbertwenty, numbertwice, adverbunit, nounV, nounvulgar fraction, nounwhole number, nounX, nounzero, number
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► growth
relating to the numbers 10 to 99 SYN double-figure British English: · The estimated maturity value given for your policy may have been based on double-digit growth rates.· Last year, many credit unions celebrated strong, double-digit growth in their loan business.· Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.· The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.· We discussed the changes, the economy, the new habits that a double-digit growth rate had wrought.
► lead· Tolbert made several crucial baskets as Eastern Michigan built a double-digit lead midway through the second half.· Peres enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over Netanyahu before the series of deadly attacks that began on Feb. 25.
double-digit inflation