triple1 adjective, predeterminertriple2 verbtriple3 noun
tripletrip‧le1 /ˈtrɪpəl ˌzɪərəʊ/ ●●○ adjective [only before noun], predeterminer 
1having three parts or involving three groups, people, events etc: 
a triple murder investigation a triple bill of horror movies the triple world champion a triple bypass heart operation2three times more than a particular number: The rail system has triple the average number of accidents.triple1 adjective, predeterminertriple2 verbtriple3 noun
tripletriple2 ●●○ verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLE
triple
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | triple |
| he, she, it | triples | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tripled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tripled |
| he, she, it | has tripled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tripled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will triple |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tripled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am tripling |
| he, she, it | is tripling | |
| you, we, they | are tripling | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was tripling |
| you, we, they | were tripling | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tripling |
| he, she, it | has been tripling | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tripling |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tripling |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tripling |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The party's majority in Congress tripled as a result of the election.
- The population of the valley has tripled in the past 20 years.
- Between 1997-98 and 1999-00, the number of refugee clients nearly tripled from 1,276 to 3,365.
- For example, employment in plants in a given industrial sector could halve while productivity tripled.
- Since the recommendation was made, some doctors have seen a doubling or tripling of cases.
- They also tripled the concentration of the sucrose in the solution the eggs are exposed to during freezing.
- To begin with, the average length of time per customer transaction tripled, which meant longer lines and increased waiting times.
- Within months, land prices in the southern half of the county tripled.
THESAURUSto increase
to become larger in number, amount, or degree: · Sales increased by 25%.· The level of violence has increased.
to increase. Go up is less formal than increase, and is the usual verb to use in everyday English: · The price of coffee has gone up.
to increase. Rise sounds a little formal and is often used when talking about the level of something increasing: · The demand for oil has been rising steadily.· Living standards have risen dramatically.
to increase, especially gradually over a period of time – used about numbers or amounts: · Since 1990, US imports of foreign goods have grown at a rate of 7.7% per year.· The number of people working from home has grown substantially.
to increase to a high level – used about things that you do not want to increase such as costs, crimes, or violence: · Fuel prices are escalating.· The fighting has escalated.
to become twice as much or three times as much: · Since 1950, the number of people dying from cancer has almost doubled.· The company’s profits tripled last quarter.
to become larger in size, or to include a wider range of activities: · The business has expanded at a rate of 15% per year.· We are hoping to expand into mobile phone services.
to increase and reach a very high level – used about numbers and amounts, or about feelings: · The temperature soared to 36.6 degrees Centigrade.· His confidence soared.· The singer’s popularity has soared.
to increase very quickly and suddenly – used about prices, numbers, or temperatures: · Share prices shot up 30% over the last week.
to make something increase to make something larger in number, amount, or degree: · Being overweight increases the risk of having a heart attack.· We need to increase the number of police officers on the streets.
to increase prices, taxes etc. Put something up is less formal than increase, and is the usual verb to use in everyday English: · The landlord has put the rent up again.· They’re always putting up gas prices.
to increase something such as prices or taxes, or levels or standards: · The bank has raised interest rates for the third time this year.· The school aims to raise students’ levels of achievement.
to increase the amount of something so that it is twice or three times as large: · The airline plans to double the number of passengers it carries by 2015.· High blood pressure triples the risk of strokes.
to increase sales, profits, production etc, especially when they have been lower than you want them to be: · Growing affluence has boosted sales.· Oil exports boosted the economy.
to increase something so that it contains a wider range of things, or to increase the size of a business: · The company plans to expand its retail operations.· Supermarkets have expanded their ranges to include non-food items.
to increase something such as your power or influence, or the number of things you are involved in: · We are hoping to extend the range of services that we offer.· The company plans to extend its dominance of the world car market.
to increase your efforts or activities, especially to change a situation: · Security has been stepped up following the bombing.· Local people have stepped up their campaign to prevent a prison being built in their neighbourhood.
to increase a feeling or effect: · The attack has heightened concerns about racism in schools.· Hunger can heighten the effect that alcohol has on you.
to increase something as much as possible: · Businesses try to maximize efficiency and cut costs.· To maximize the chances of a successful pregnancy, you should make sure that you eat well.
Longman Language Activatorto increase a lot to increase greatly in number: · Since they started borrowing money, their problems have multiplied.· The number of settlements multiplied enormously.· The insects multiply rapidly during hot, dry summers.
to become twice as much or twice as many: · Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.double to: · The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.double in size/value: · In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size.
also treble British to become three times as much or three times as many: · The number of senior citizens living in poverty has trebled in the last three years. · The party's majority in Congress tripled as a result of the election.triple in size/value: · The shares have trebled in value since trading resumed on Wednesday.
to become four times as much or four times as many: · In ten years, homicide rates tripled and suicide rates quadrupled.quadruple to: · By the end of 1973, the price of oil had quadrupled to $11.65 a gallon.
formal if something proliferates , it increases very quickly, and becomes more common: · The HIV virus is able to proliferate at an astonishing rate.· Child pornography is proliferating due to the increased use of computer chat rooms.
to increase in number, at first slowly and then faster and faster: · Unemployment snowballed at the beginning of the 1980s.· Things hadn't exactly been going our way, but after the first defeat, everything sort of snowballed.
to make a number or amount increase · High alcohol consumption increases the risk of liver disease. · The Clean Air Act would increase the cost of electric power in the Midwest.· The party aims to increase the number of women elected to Congress.· We reduced the size of the magazine because we didn't want to increase the price.increase something to · The company has increased its workforce to 1,500 employeesincrease something by 20%/$400/1 million etc · a program to increase output by 14%
if someone raises raises a tax, price, temperature etc, they increase it: · The president should take the necessary steps of raising taxes and cutting public spending.· All the major airlines have raised their fares.raise something to $300/40C/200 etc: · The retirement age has been raised to 65 for both men and women.
informal if someone puts up the cost or price of something, they increase it: put up something: · They've put up the price of petrol again.put something up: · A solicitor can advise whether the landlord has a right to put the rent up.· This used to be quite a cheap restaurant but they've put their prices up since the last time I came here.
informal to increase prices or amounts by a large amount, especially when this seems unreasonable: jack something up: · I guess they must jack the price up in the summer, then mark it down in the winter. jack up something: · a proposal that would have jacked up taxi fares by as much as 30%
to make something increase - use this about things you would prefer to keep low, such as costs and prices: push/drive/force up something: · An expansion of the weapons research program is sure to drive up defence costs.· In recent years, increased demand has forced up the price of copper on world markets.push/force/drive something up: · Office vacancy rates have reached a low, pushing rents up sharply for office and industrial space.
to increase something such as production, sales, or wages because they are not as high as you want them to be: · The plan was meant to boost agricultural production.· The multi-million dollar ad campaign has failed to boost sales.· Greater consumer access to the Internet has boosted electronic retailing.
to increase a number or amount by two, three, or four times: · The company has quadrupled Sonia's salary in just three years in recognition of her achievements.· The government doubled the sales tax on cigarettes from 20% to 40%.
also maximise British to make something such as profit, power, or productivity increase to the highest level that you can achieve: · The bank's function is to maximize profits, and that requires some risk-taking.· To maximise power output, solar panels are placed on the highest part of the building.
to become more valuable · They bought a Ferrari knowing that it would increase in value.· Through clever marketing, the shares have gone up in value quite quickly.· The pound has risen in value against the yen over the weekend.
to become gradually more valuable over a period of time: · This property has appreciated rapidly during the last ten years.· Most investments are still expected to appreciate at a steady rate.
to become two or three times more valuable: · Fortunately, when I sold my apartment it had almost doubled in value since I bought it.· Production of iron and steel more than tripled in value during the 1950s.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The company has tripled in size.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The company has tripled in size.· The average home loan is now almost triple the £13,000 at the beginning of the Eighties.· The number of flights is expected to rise to 800,000 from 430,000 now, with passenger numbers almost tripling.
· Between 1997-98 and 1999-00, the number of refugee clients nearly tripled from 1,276 to 3,365.· You can nearly triple your retirement savings by buying 15-year zero-coupon Treasury bonds.· And the company is looking toward nearly tripling revenues this year.
NOUN· Alias will provide on-site engineering resources at Industrial Light, potentially tripling the number of Alias users via a site-wide software licence.· During her 12-year tenure at Beacon, annual sales tripled and the number of titles carried annually by the Boston publisher doubled.· Loans to organic farms and businesses tripled and the number of borrowers rose by more than 50 per cent each year.· They are particularly bad about retelling a story in the right order, tripling the normal number of errors.· The Agency has also pledged to triple the number of cleanups of contaminated sites conducted under the Superfund programme by 1993.
· Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size.· According to the World Bank, it will be double that size by 2010 and triple that size by 2035.
VERB· Many are forced to double or triple parts, as if in a Brian Rix farce.· She is doing us a favor by allowing us to double and triple up like this.· Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.· With these little-known secrets, you can easily double or triple your response!· This recipe makes enough for two substantial servings but may easily be doubled or tripled.· It meant doubling or tripling the budget, increasing taxes heavily, and imposing various kinds of economic controls.· His job was to distribute seeds of improved rice varieties and teach farmers how to double and triple their rice yields.· Since then, many of those same Internet retailers have doubled or even tripled their sales.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to increase by three times as much, or to make something do this: - After the double whammy of rugby in Johannesburg and rowing with Redgrave, though, I more resembled a wizened old man.
- Anyway, in a showbiz double whammy the boys with the buttocks have been talking to Bryan Burnett.
- Economic impudence plus political insensitivity combine to make a Kinnockian double whammy that I will vote Tory to avoid, however unenthusiastically.
- In the political parlance of 1992, I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy.
- Is he aware that the Labour party will put up both - a double whammy?
The company has tripled in size. We expect to triple our profits next year.► see thesaurus at increasetriple1 adjective, predeterminertriple2 verbtriple3 noun
tripletriple3 noun [countable] 1a hit of the ball in baseball that allows the batter to get to the third base2three turns of your body in a sport such as ice skating or gymnastics