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double-digit
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
growth
▪ The estimated maturity value given for your policy may have been based on double-digit growth rates.
▪ Last year, many credit unions celebrated strong, double-digit growth in their loan business.
▪ Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
▪ The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
▪ We discussed the changes, the economy, the new habits that a double-digit growth rate had wrought.
lead
▪ Tolbert made several crucial baskets as Eastern Michigan built a double-digit lead midway through the second half.
▪ Peres enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over Netanyahu before the series of deadly attacks that began on Feb. 25.
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▪ Each is asking for more than a double-digit percentage increase.
▪ Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
▪ Peres enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over Netanyahu before the series of deadly attacks that began on Feb. 25.
▪ The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
▪ The estimated maturity value given for your policy may have been based on double-digit growth rates.
▪ The point is that a double-digit differential can make quite a difference to pensioners' returns.
▪ This may sound reassuring, but the promised double-digit returns may not ensue.
▪ Tolbert made several crucial baskets as Eastern Michigan built a double-digit lead midway through the second half.
Wiktionary
double-digit

a. Referring to a number between 10 and 99 inclusive, a number that requires two digits to write in base 10.

Usage examples of "double-digit".

It was a bust that sent three high-ranking Camorristas to jail for double-digit sentences and put three others into early graves.

It was not enough for him to see a group of Camorristas led away in cuffs, off to serve double-digit prison terms.

Bode Gazzer's fondness for stolen credit cards was evident from the double-digit entry on his rap sheet, which also included nine convictions for check kiting, five for welfare fraud, four for stealing electricity, three for looting lobster traps and two for willful destruction of private property (a parking meter and an ATM machine).