# growth
## English
### Etymology

From grow +‎ -th. Compare Old Frisian grēd ("meadow, pasture"; > North Frisian greyde (“growth, pasture”)), Middle High German gruote, gruot (“greens, fresh growth, shoot”), Old Norse gróðr ("growth, crop"; > Faroese grøði, Danish grøde (“fruits”), Swedish gröda (“crop, harvest”)). More at grow.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɡɹoʊθ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɹəʊθ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊθ

### Noun

growth (countable and uncountable, plural growths)
* An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
* (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
    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.
** 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
** 2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, quoting Liz Truss, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian‎:Liz Truss has promised Britons she has “got your back” and set out a plan for “growth, growth and growth” in a conference speech disrupted by protesters asking who voted for her plan.
* An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
    Struggle, disappointment, and criticism all contribute to a person's growth.
* (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
* (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
* (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

#### Synonyms

* (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment
* (act of growing): development, maturation
* (something that grows or has grown): vegetation
* (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “increase in size”): contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction
* (antonym(s) of “act of growing”): nondevelopment

#### Hyponyms

* (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): tumor

#### Derived terms

* aftergrowth
* antigrowth
* autogrowth
* bottom growth
* chain growth polymerization
* cogrowth
* degrowth
* diauxic growth
* economic growth
* edgrowth
* epigrowth
* establishment growth
* exponential growth
* geometric growth
* grand period of growth
* growth arrest line
* growth cone
* growth factor
* growthful
* growth hacker
* growth hacking
* growth hormone
* growth investing
* growthism
* growthist
* growthless
* growthmania
* growth medium
* growth mindset
* growth plate
* growth rate
* growth retardation
* growth-retarding
* growth ring
* growthsome
* growth spurt
* growth stock
* growthwise
* growthy
* high-growth
* hypergrowth
* ingrowth
* intergrowth
* logistic growth
* macrogrowth
* megagrowth
* microgrowth
* misgrowth
* negative growth
* nerve growth factor
* nongrowth
* old-growth
* old-growth forest
* organic growth
* outgrowth
* overgrowth
* postgrowth
* regrowth
* second-growth forest
* slowth
* spring growth
* supergrowth
* undergrowth
* upgrowth
* vascular endothelial growth factor
* zero growth
* zero population growth

#### Translations

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