| 单词 | growth |
| 释义 | growth /grohth/, n. 1. the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase. 2. size or stage of development: It hasn't yet reached its full growth. 3. completed development. 4. development from a simpler to a more complex stage: the growth of ritual forms. 5. development from another but related form or stage: the growth of the nation state. 6. something that has grown or developed by or as if by a natural process: a growth of stubborn weeds. 7. Pathol. an abnormal increase in a mass of tissue, as a tumor. 8. origin; source; production: onions of English growth. adj. 9. 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; prob. c. ON grothr] Syn. 1. augmentation, expansion. 6. result, outgrowth. 7. excrescence. Ant. 1. decline, decrease. |
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