emerginge‧mer‧ging /ɪˈmɜːdʒɪŋ $ -ɜːr-/AWL adjective [only before noun]Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
In 1911 the newly emerging car industry faced a crisis.
Opinions vary on emerging markets such as China and Indonesia.
The program is designed to help identify emerging trends in drug use.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A new view of war, albeit one which had close links with past ideas, was gradually emerging.
But the issue also epitomized the emerging dilemma for Laura, caught between the dictates of commerce and social responsibility.
But to those in distress, and towards unrecognized or emerging talent, he was unfailing in his generosity and support.
Details of the operation to remove the boat people are now emerging.
Rural recreation geography: An emerging or mature discipline?
The anti-Aristotelianism and the newly emerging concept of natural philosophy were, then, not private but public developments.
This emerging kind of organization within production is sometimes called flexible specialization.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorin the process of developing►developing
· Good nutrition is very important to a developing child.· These drugs are effective in the developing stages of the disease.
►embryonic
plans, activities etc that are embryonic are in a very early stage of development, so that the details have not yet been fully planned or decided: · The program is still in the embryonic stage, but we are confident of its success.· Online gambling as an industry is still illegal and embryonic.
►emerging
in an early stage of development and only just beginning to be noticed: · In 1911 the newly emerging car industry faced a crisis.· The program is designed to help identify emerging trends in drug use.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►an emerging/fledgling democracy
(=new)· the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe
►a developing/emerging nation
(=one that is starting to have more industry)· Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB►newly
· The anti-Aristotelianism and the newly emerging concept of natural philosophy were, then, not private but public developments.· They never in any case became a significant part of the newly emerging pattern, whereas the other four did.· The former idea represents the older model, the latter the newly emerging picture.· Indeed, by the late Silurian, colonization of the changing land with its newly emerging continents was well under way.· It may interest you to be reminded that around 1911 a rather similar crisis was facing the newly emerging car industry.
NOUN►democracy
· And the growth of an emerging democracy over the past two years provides an outlet for his critics' denunciations.
►market
· Why should emerging markets be particularly attractive?
►technology
· The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs.· All the banks say that the government's Loan Guarantee Scheme has stimulated small businesses involved with emerging technologies.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectiveemergentemergingnounemergenceverbemerge
in an early state of development: the country’s emerging oil industry