Synonyms for growth
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1. growthnoun

   an increase in size, number, value, or strength

   Growth was dampened by a softening of the global economy in 2001, but picked up in the subsequent years due to strong growth in China.

   Synonyms:
   increment, increase, enlargement, expansion

   Antonyms:
   decrement, contraction, decrease, reduction

2. growthnoun

   the act of growing, getting bigger or higher

   Synonyms:
   development, maturation

   Antonyms:
   nondevelopment

3. growthnoun

   something that grows or has grown

   Synonyms:
   vegetation

4. growthnoun

   an abnormal mass such as a tumor

   Synonyms:
   mass, cancer, outgrowth

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1. growth

   Harvest, from the Anglo-Saxon, signified originally "autumn," and as that is the usual season of gathering ripened crops in Northern lands, the word came to its present meaning of the season of gathering ripened grain or fruits, whether summer or autumn, and hence a crop gathered or ready for gathering; also, the act or process of gathering a crop or crops. "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few," Luke x, 2. "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest," John iv, 35. Harvest is the elegant and literary word; crop is the common and commercial expression; we say a man sells his crop, but we should not speak of his selling his harvest; we speak of an ample or abundant harvest, a good crop. Harvest is applied almost wholly to grain; crop applies to almost anything that is gathered in; we speak of the potato-crop, not the potato-harvest; we may say either the wheat-crop or the wheat-harvest. Produce is a collective word for all that is produced in farming or gardening, and is, in modern usage, almost wholly restricted to this sense; we speak of produce collectively, but of a product or various products; vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, etc., may be termed farm-produce, or the products of the farm. Product is a word of wider application than produce; we speak of the products of manufacturing, the products of thought, or the product obtained by multiplying one number by another. The word proceeds is chiefly used of the return from an investment: we speak of the produce of a farm, but of the proceeds of the money invested in farming. The yield is what the land gives up to the farmer's demand; we speak of the return from an expenditure of money or labor, but of the yield of corn or oats. Harvest has also a figurative use, such as crop more rarely permits; we term a religious revival a harvest of souls; the result of lax enforcement of law is a harvest of crime. As regards time, harvest, harvest-tide, and harvest-time alike denote the period or season when the crops are or should be gathered (tide being simply the old Saxon word for time). Harvest-home ordinarily denotes the festival of harvest, and when used to denote simply the season always gives a suggestion of festivity and rejoicing, such as harvest and harvest-time by themselves do not express.

   Synonyms:
   crop, fruit, harvest, harvest-feast, harvest-festival, harvest-home, harvest-tide, harvest-time, harvesting, increase, ingathering, proceeds, produce, product, reaping, result, return, yield

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1. growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesisnoun

   (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

   "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

   Synonyms:
   development, emergence, ripening, maturation, suppuration, increase, ontogenesis, maturement, evolution, developing, outgrowth, ontogeny, increment, exploitation, growing, festering

2. growthnoun

   a progression from simpler to more complex forms

   "the growth of culture"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

3. increase, increment, growthnoun

   a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

   "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, gain, emergence, growing, addition, ontogeny, development, maturation, increment, outgrowth, step-up

4. growthnoun

   vegetation that has grown

   "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

5. emergence, outgrowth, growthnoun

   the gradual beginning or coming forth

   "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

   Synonyms:
   development, process, emergence, maturation, egression, offshoot, emersion, outgrowth, ontogeny, increment, ontogenesis, growing, offset, branch, appendage, issue, increase, egress

6. growthnoun

   (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

7. growthnoun

   something grown or growing

   "a growth of hair"

   Synonyms:
   increase, ontogenesis, increment, growing, emergence, ontogeny, maturation, outgrowth, development

Matched Categories

1. • Biology
   • Evolution
   • Illness
   • Object
   • Organic Process
   • Pathology
   • Process
   • Vegetation

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1. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   increase, expansion, development

2. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   produce, product

3. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   advancement, advance, progress, improvement

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1. growthnoun

   Synonyms:
   growing, development, accretion, extension, increase, augmentation, increment, enlargement, excrescence hypertrophy, overgrowth, germination, cultivation, pullulation, sprouting

   Antonyms:
   atrophy, decrease, blasting, undevelopment

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1. List of paraphrases for "growth":

   growing, increase, grow, development, rise, expansion, croissance, grew, developed, progression

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1. William E Ford:

   The company’s business model, management, and market are the three most important criteria. Does the company possess an innovative or disruptive business model that is unique, with barriers to entry to allow for strong growth? What is our assessment of the quality of the management team and our ability to work as good partners? And finally, what is the size and growth potential of the market?

2. Karsten Engel:

   Everything is normalizing in China - the market growth, the volume growth, the margin growth.

3. Kang Joong-koo:

   Strong employment growth used to be a result of strong economic growth but in recent years, job growth has been led by a strong supply of labor, especially of the elderly, gROWTH WITHOUT WAGES.

4. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

5. Mark Priest:

   There's a sense of relief. There's so much nervousness in the market at the moment that even slightly good news out of a bank like Commerzbank is taken very well, the German banking sector has been pretty battered, and The German banking sector's got to a point where there may be value there, so long as global economic factors start to calm down. Germany's DAX was up 1.4 percent. Traders said that growth data from Germany, which showed growth was steady and in line with expectations, provided reassurance after economic fears had pegged back markets this week. The FTSEurofirst 300 nonetheless remains down 5 percent this week, with banks still down around 7.5 percent on the week, hit by concerns over profitability in a low growth, low interest rate environment. Caution over exposure to default from the energy sector has also hindered bank stocks. On Friday, the oil and gas sector rose 3.1 percent after a rally in oil which left crude prices up over 3 percent. Growth sensitive mining stocks also rallied, up over 3 percent. In other corporate news, Rolls Royce rallied 11.9 percent after Rolls Royce results, Rolls Royce biggest one-day rise since November 2008. It stuck to its 2016 guidance, despite being forced to cut its dividend following three profit warnings last year. It said there would be no need for a rights issue.