Growth Definition

grōth
noun
The process of growing or developing.
Webster's New World
The full extent of such increase.
Webster's New World
Development from a lower or simpler to a higher or more complex form; evolution.
American Heritage Medicine
Degree of increase in size, weight, power, etc.
Webster's New World
Something that grows or has grown.
A thick growth of grass.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Expected to have or investing in businesses expected to have higher-than-average increases in revenues and returns.
A growth stock; a growth fund.
American Heritage
Of or designating a stock, mutual fund, etc. or a company, industry, etc. whose value or earnings grow at a rate above average.
Webster's New World
other

(pathology: abnormal mass such as a tum): tumor.

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Other Word Forms of Growth

Noun

Singular:
growth
Plural:
growths

Origin of Growth

  • From grow +‎ -th. Compare North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”), Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”). More at grow.

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Growth Sentence Examples

  • After 1890 growth was slower but continuous.

  • Two parties had developed with the growth of the Church.

  • It can take growth for granted and thus overtax.

  • But even as capital its growth was slow.

  • The fifth Lambeth conference, following as it did close on the great Pan-Anglican congress, is remarkable mainly as a proof of the growth of the influence and many-sided activity of the Anglican Church, and as a conspicuous manifestation of her characteristic principles.

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Words Starting With

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