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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024growth /groʊθ/USA pronunciation n. - the act or process or a manner of growing;
development;
gradual increase:[uncountable]to watch the growth of one's children. - size or stage of development:[uncountable]full growth.
- emotional and spiritual evolution:[uncountable]felt stifled in her growth as a total human being.
- expansion;
enlargement:[uncountable]the growth of a business. - development from a simpler to a more complex stage:[countable* usually singular]the growth of language from a series of grunts to full sentences.
- [countable] something that has grown or developed, as a crop or harvest.
- Pathology[countable] an abnormal increase in a mass of tissue, as a tumor.
- origin or source:[uncountable]tobacco of domestic growth.
adj. [before a noun] - Businessgrowing or expected to grow in value or earnings at a rate higher than average:a growth industry.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024growth (grōth),USA pronunciation n. - the act or process, or a manner of growing;
development;
gradual increase. - size or stage of development:It hasn't yet reached its full growth.
- completed development.
- development from a simpler to a more complex stage:the growth of ritual forms.
- development from another but related form or stage:the growth of the nation state.
- something that has grown or developed by or as if by a natural process:a growth of stubborn weeds.
- Pathologyan abnormal increase in a mass of tissue, as a tumor.
- origin;
source;
production:onions of English growth.
adj. - of or denoting a business, industry, or equity security that grows or is expected to grow in value over a long period of time:a growth industry; a growth stock.
- 1550–60; see grow, -th1; probably cognate with Old Norse grōthr
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged augmentation, expansion.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged result, outgrowth.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged excrescence.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged decline, decrease.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: growth /ɡrəʊθ/ n - the process or act of growing, esp in organisms following assimilation of food
- an increase in size, number, significance, etc
- something grown or growing: a new growth of hair
- a stage of development
- any abnormal tissue, such as a tumour
- (modifier) of, relating to, causing or characterized by growth: a growth industry, growth hormone
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