mission creepnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈmɪʃ.ən ˌkriːp/us/ˈmɪʃ.ən ˌkriːp/disapprovingthe fact of doing a much larger job for a longer time than was originally expected, especially in a military operation
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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