noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a growth forecast (=one relating to an increase in the value of goods or services produced and sold)
▪ The official growth forecasts for the economy are promising.
a growth target
▪ The company’s growth targets have been achieved for the last three years.
a growth/rise/increase in exports
▪ The electronics sector has seen a 16% growth in exports.
an increase/growth in sales
▪ The company is expecting a 20% increase in sales next year.
economic growth/development (=when businesses become more successful)
▪ We have enjoyed a period of steady economic growth.
growth in earnings (=an increase in the amount a person or company earns)
▪ The first part of this year has seen a substantial growth in earnings.
growth spurt (=when a child suddenly grows quickly)
industrial development/growth
▪ rapid post-war industrial development
phenomenal growth/rise/increase
▪ California had experienced a phenomenal growth in population.
population growth
▪ Rapid population growth intensifies competition for land.
rapid growth/expansion/development
▪ The industry is experiencing rapid growth.
steady growth
▪ During the 1960s most of the Western world enjoyed steady economic growth.
stem the growth/rise/decline etc
▪ an attempt to stem the decline in profits
stimulate growth/demand/the economy etc
▪ the President’s plan to stimulate economic growth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ The national income had doubled since 1948; in the period 1951-73, the average annual rate of growth was 2.3 percent.
▪ What annual growth rate can you show me?
▪ The annual growth rate can be calculated by subtracting the earlier year's membership from the later year's.
▪ It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
▪ In particular, books show an average annual growth rate of 8.25 percent while electronic information shows a rate of 20.30 percent.
▪ The revised method also shaves half a percentage point off average annual growth during the four years of this economic recovery.
▪ Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 2. 7 percent.
▪ The advance of real wages was even more impressive, with an annual growth rate of 4. 1 percent.
average
▪ In particular, books show an average annual growth rate of 8.25 percent while electronic information shows a rate of 20.30 percent.
▪ That compares with average monthly growth of 21. 4 percent last year.
▪ The company has achieved average annual compound growth over the last four years of 15%.
▪ The revised method also shaves half a percentage point off average annual growth during the four years of this economic recovery.
▪ An average growth rate of 11 % p.a. in real manufactured exports, reflecting increased competitiveness.
▪ The average growth fund ended the year with a 30. 80 percent advance.
▪ If mechanization was to yield less productivity gains however, then average productivity growth would slip back despite faster scrapping.
▪ But as Table 2-1 shows, the adoption of free-market develop-ment models has raised their average growth rates.
economic
▪ The size of the service sector is an impediment to economic growth because it depends upon inflation to a considerable extent.
▪ Even so, recent economic reports suggest growth is flagging.
▪ From the mid-1970s the slow-down in economic growth and rising inflation sapped the confidence of policy-makers in demand management.
▪ Still, with the population growing at 2 percent annually, per capita economic growth is negligible.
▪ This weakness of the banking system came during a period of rapid economic growth.
▪ He sees economic growth picking up in the second half of this year.
▪ Also, as incomes increase with economic growth, citizens are willing to spend more for health and safety.
▪ The peso has firmed, inflation has slowed and economic growth has resumed.
high
▪ Kenneth Leventhal, which reported the highest growth rate in the top 10, at 9.7%, specialises in real estate.
▪ The prospect of still higher unemployment as growth slows is prompting movement on the union side.
▪ He believed that lower taxes were the route to higher growth and more jobs.
▪ An even higher economic growth rate is not out of the question.
▪ The report speaks of extensive environmental degradation caused by high population growth, rapid urbanization and fast industrialization.
▪ The most lengthy and energetic discussion occurred around financial goals because both groups had surprised themselves by setting very high growth targets.
▪ Fourth, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty is likely to yield benefits in terms of higher growth rates of intra-union trade and investment.
▪ Unfortunately, it appears certain that the Federal Reserve will not take the risk of seeking higher growth.
industrial
▪ Many large Third World cities have arisen unaccompanied by national industrial growth.
▪ Agriculture has also been the beneficiary of rapid industrial growth and urban development, which have created expanding market opportunities.
▪ The industrial revolution reinforced the trend, but the post industrial revolution-the recent growth of service industries-is reversing it again.
▪ Despite these qualifications, it is true that urbanisation is typically linked with industrial growth.
▪ The North was a populous, bustling, commercial place, its economy geared to industrial growth.
▪ Almost everywhere, industrial growth, like agricultural recovery, took place behind protection of tariffs.
▪ The only way to avoid such an accident, Limits argued, would be to slow industrial and population growth.
low
▪ Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth.
▪ Very few companies, either high growth or low growth, follow the residual theory exactly.
▪ It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth.
▪ But the fundamentals of low inflation and low growth failed to assuage the bond market yesterday.
▪ This low growth will result from such factors as inflation, energy costs, environmental constraint and low population growth.
▪ A dramatically lower savings rate, low growth rates in investment and labor productivity, and stagnating wages are a direct result.
monetary
▪ Here, then, is a fourth source of monetary growth.
▪ Figure 7-1 shows the monetary growth rate for the United States measured in two ways.
▪ A third modification is to introduce an explicit private-sector aggregate demand shock and to eliminate the random component of monetary growth.
▪ A similar constraint is visible in the monetary growth rates of all the advanced industrial countries.
▪ Its symptoms are familiar: feeble monetary growth, a weak property market and a distressed banking system.
▪ This is a stark indicator of the fall in monetary growth since the end of the cold war.
▪ That is the rate of monetary growth which is compatible with avoiding inflation.
▪ Holding monetary growth so low virtually dooms the United States to stagnant wages and social tensions.
personal
▪ Independent personal and professional growth - employees begin to lead themselves. 9.
▪ The first year of management was a period of considerable introspection and personal growth.
▪ Although from time to time you may find it hard to believe, this is a year of immense personal growth.
▪ Like Dewey, Rice had a holistic, some would say anti-intellectual, view of education as a process of personal growth.
▪ Simplified, formula-like techniques are inconsequential when compared with personal growth as a means of overcoming difficulties.
▪ Or you may he starting your career and seeking your first position-one that will allow for future personal growth and promotion.
▪ So personal growth at that time was in high leaps forward rather than in little trickles.
▪ Only by changing the heart can we live according to principles that enhance the parenting and personal growth of both partners.
rapid
▪ The inflation rate was fuelled by a relatively rapid growth rate which in 1989 reached 5.4 percent.
▪ Foreign funds are being lured by reforms that have primed the economy for more rapid growth.
▪ So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth.
▪ Quantitative assessments arc difficult to make, but the most rapid period of growth was probably from about I 580 to 1650.
▪ Raw sewage was feeding an already rapid growth of algae, raising weed growth to critical levels.
▪ There has been a rapid and spontaneous growth of ideas and an anticipation of things to come.
▪ They suggest that this factor may be related to genetic abnormality or more rapid progression of growth in younger women.
▪ The supply of food has been affected by rapid population growth as well.
real
▪ Public relations, a real growth service industry, is not far behind.
▪ His dark curly hair seemed tangled, the stubble on his cheeks and chin turning into real beard growth.
▪ Those economies which have successfully switched underemployed agricultural labour into manufacturing and service activities have generally achieved significant real economic growth rates.
▪ After all, a 30 percent correction in October 1987 had almost no impact on real economic growth.
▪ But the real growth area is the use of tax credits to promote social and environmental responsibility, says Mayo.
▪ A real growth in your spirituality.
▪ True, real growth has been slowing.
▪ Retail sales were described as disappointing, but manufacturing and commercial real estate experienced growth.
slow
▪ The trend towards slower population growth appeared more and more in wealthier countries and regions.
▪ This plant likes moving water and grows well when placed next to the filtering system, which enhances their normally slow growth.
▪ Over the five years of Labour rule, Britain had the slowest economic growth of any major industrial nation.
▪ Higher interest rates often raise concern about slower economic growth and weaker corporate profits.
▪ The balancing slower growth was supplied by the portmanteau of miscellaneous services.
▪ Expectations for waning inflation coincide with the anticipation of slower economic growth.
steady
▪ They had witnessed a steady growth in circulation and were well satisfied with their achievements, even hopeful that things would improve.
▪ And that slow but steady growth rate upsets some politicians.
▪ It does not come naturally. Steady growth will not be enough.
▪ In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts.
▪ The business may have a history of steady growth.
▪ However, the steady growth of electronic markets provides an important context for the longer term growth of handheld media.
▪ Thus the monetarists recommend a steady growth in the money supply.
▪ However, despite their steady growth, the provision of day centres and independent living under supervision remains limited.
strong
▪ Allied businesses such as specialist surgical gloves also offer strong growth potential worldwide.
▪ The strongest growth is in the 18-to-34 year-old group, Marks said.
▪ The heart of the strong population growth lay in London itself and an overspill of about 1 million people was expected.
▪ Primary Primary publishing remains a strong growth area, with most of the major publishers producing new courses.
▪ Its telecoms business showed the strongest growth, however, rising 123 per cent to £11.6m.
▪ The company notices strong growth in the sale of short breaks, at the expense of longer package holidays.
▪ The strongest growth in turnover came from Druck Holdings, up 60% at £27m.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Investment is moving into the growth areas of forestry and tourism.
▪ The deal fits in with Spring Ram's belief that bedroom, dining and living room furniture is an important growth area.
▪ But as in every such growth area, there will always be another side.
▪ Primary Primary publishing remains a strong growth area, with most of the major publishers producing new courses.
▪ There can be no doubt that it is a growth area, which has had distinct achievements in many countries.
▪ The biggest growth areas were transport, with revenues up 80%, and space, up 43%.
▪ Guided ascents in the greater ranges is a big growth area, Berry says.
▪ Egg pasta is another growth area identified by Caterplan.
factor
▪ It may even turn out that these growth factors are the signals from the organizer which specify the main body axis.
▪ Changes in the balance of other hormones or growth factors, which are as yet unknown, may result from fundectomy.
▪ New business strategies; growth factors.
▪ Trunk tissue appeared similar in medium with or without growth factor supplementation.
▪ Association of a purine-analogue-sensitive protein kinase activity with p75 nerve growth factor receptors.
▪ Following its purification it has been possible to study the biological properties of platelet-derived growth factor.
▪ Many growth factors are ignored including my favourite, basic fibroblast growth factor.
hormone
▪ Hymer's rats were unable to produce more than half the normal amount of pituitary growth hormone.
▪ These deer are grass-fed; growth hormones or other chemical additives are not used.
▪ The authors suggested that this might represent end organ resistance to growth hormone.
▪ Physical stimulation releases healing growth hormones into the immune sys-tem.
▪ Even thought the warehouse is full of many drugs, only the growth hormone was taken.
▪ In 1987, the agency had directed blood banks to similarly disqualify donors who have received pituitary-derived growth hormone.
▪ It was now found that growth hormone was made in the pancreas.
▪ Human growth hormones are injected under the skin.
industry
▪ As to employment, the service industries clearly represent the growth industries.
▪ The telecommunications giant joined a growing number of employers in growth industries that have slashed payrolls even as their profits soared.
▪ In these environmentally conscious times, this is an uncomfortable growth industry.
▪ This industry had always been known as a growth industry of unlimited potential.
▪ Softbank claims that it is better at picking winners and that it is buying into a growth industry.
▪ More than that, they are also the reason that debt collection has become a huge growth industry.
▪ Indeed, waste-smuggling will become one of the growth industries of the early 21st century.
▪ Has apologizing become a growth industry?
job
▪ In 1990 alone, 647, 675 new businesses were incorporated nationwide, accounting for ninety percent of the net job growth.
▪ Expansion of the personnel supply industry, in general, will also spur job growth.
▪ In its employment report, the Labor Department revised higher the November job growth total to 166, 000.
▪ Interest rates are low, inflation seems whipped, job growth is strong, corporate profits are soaring.
▪ For the new year, job growth is likely to remain sluggish.
▪ The state ranked fifth in the top five fastest growing states in the nation in terms of job growth.
plant
▪ The fry drift with the current to the relative safety of plant growths.
▪ This highly engineered plumbing produced concentrated plant growth in cramped spaces.
▪ But, as every good gardener knows, healthy plant growth depends very much on the fertility and structure of the soil.
▪ F Fertiliser substrate Compound mixed with gravel to promote plant growth.
▪ It is known that, beyond a certain age, plant growth slows down.
▪ Grolux tubes are great for promoting plant growth, but they do give everything a pinkish tinge.
▪ The tank has all the mod. cons. for plant growth, including CO2 injection and undergravel heating.
▪ First we will give a brief overview of plant growth analysis.
population
▪ The early San Antonio date also upsets explanations for the spurt in population growth during Classic times.
▪ Rapid population growth can affect security in various ways.
▪ This became a central issue in opposition to new housing since population growth as such was something of a red-herring.
▪ But with rapid population growth, all the negative effects of poverty and ill-conceived government policies are magnified.
▪ The problem for the future is the need to keep pace with mushrooming global population growth.
▪ Rapid population growth can have other important, if less direct, consequences when it is linked to competition for scarce resources.
▪ He said it would also be operated with shorter trains, reflecting a tailing off in the capital's explosive population growth.
▪ Simple mathematics demands that population growth be less than economic growth if real per capita incomes are to rise.
productivity
▪ Deflation hit productivity growth which slowed down somewhat.
▪ Demographics also turned against rapid productivity growth after 1973.
▪ Previously their real and money wages had grown at a rate q, the rate of productivity growth.
▪ These factors virtually doomed the United States to a period when the productivity growth rate would be less than the historic average.
▪ If mechanization was to yield less productivity gains however, then average productivity growth would slip back despite faster scrapping.
▪ But fundamental economic factors turned more favorable to productivity growth in the 1980s and especially in the 1990s.
▪ Fast productivity growth in the sectors producing means of production ensured a rapid reduction in the real cost of capital goods.
▪ Mainstream economists profess much puzzlement over the failure of the rate of productivity growth to accelerate so far in this decade.
rate
▪ This assumes a modest growth rate of 5 per cent, although many investors will have gained far more.
▪ The advance of real wages was even more impressive, with an annual growth rate of 4. 1 percent.
▪ Whatever the factors underlying the different growth rates, it is consistent with the uneven relationship emerging in the inter-war years.
▪ Some economists say that declining population growth rates have defused the population bomb.
▪ It is the comparison between growth rates.
▪ Compare that with the 3. 3 % growth rate registered in the last five years of the 1980s.
▪ In particular, books show an average annual growth rate of 8.25 percent while electronic information shows a rate of 20.30 percent.
▪ Figure 7-4 shows the combined real economic growth rate of these countries.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ The company has achieved average annual compound growth over the last four years of 15%.
▪ We aim to ensure that managers will be more effective, achieve personal growth and contribute to corporate development.
▪ Those economies which have successfully switched underemployed agricultural labour into manufacturing and service activities have generally achieved significant real economic growth rates.
▪ In the 1980s, Britain achieved the fastest growth in productivity of any major industrialised country.
▪ For this reason, trade unions might be active in cooperative efforts with management to achieve growth through greater efficiency.
▪ This is the only way to achieve sustained growth, based on net exports and investment demand.
▪ Belgrade was hoping to achieve 14 % growth this year, but it will barely top 6 %.
continue
▪ There continues to be potential growth points in other areas of research, particularly where contacts with other Departments overseas are strong.
▪ Meanwhile, the mutual-fund industry continued its unparalleled growth.
▪ That period over, there is a stage of continued high growth when the dominance of the new technology is generally accepted.
▪ The Fed continues to hold growth back arbitrarily, spooked by inflation that has shown no signs of stirring for years.
▪ He argued that a period of continued budgetary growth is likely to build expectations that the pattern of growth will continue.
▪ Equally important to continued economic growth, say the economists, is the high-tech spending boom.
▪ In fact the Ganges delta is witnessing a continued net growth in its surface area.
▪ But Clinton insists that new technologies will improve energy efficiency, enabling developing countries to continue economic growth without increasing emissions.
encourage
▪ It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump.
▪ Light to moderate pruning after a period of bloom encourages bushy new growth.
▪ Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
▪ The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
▪ Give fortnightly liquid feeds to encourage new growth.
▪ Rationalism of this kind has encouraged the growth of more and more nebulous deism.
▪ Such beliefs, coinciding with the growing phenomenon of abrupt cessation of full-time employment, encouraged the growth of the preparation-for-retirement movement.
▪ You can pinch the tips of your young plant to encourage bushy growth.
expect
▪ Our farm has shown growth right from grandfather's day in 1921 and I would expect that growth would continue.
▪ Sons, lowered their ratings on the stock because of slower-than-#expected growth at new stores.
▪ Bearpark expects the most rapid growth to come from services and systems integration, particularly in the open systems arena.
▪ The discounted survivors' benefits can be raised by using a lower discount rate and by allowing for expected growth of benefits.
▪ I confidently expect to see continued growth in this area in the years ahead.
▪ Many analysts expect growth to settle back to the 2 percent to 2. 5 percent range.
▪ As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 percent growth for 1991.
forecast
▪ The Congressional Budget Office, an independent adviser to Congress, had recently forecast growth of around 2.6 percent per year.
▪ The company forecast further growth in 1996.
▪ Tokyo stock exchange-listed companies are forecasting annual profit growth of just 0.6 per cent between October and March 2001.
▪ This year we forecast growth of 30 percent.
▪ The government has forecast economic growth of 2. 5 percent for the year starting in April.
▪ The model is used to forecast economic growth and to estimate the potential effects of sudden shocks like a stock crash.
▪ Last November, it had forecast growth of 26 percent.
promote
▪ A stance that helped the poor and promoted growth, it said, counted for nothing without a strong anti-corruption strategy.
▪ Reading, which in other settings has promoted the intellectual growth of a people, now threatens to arrest it.
▪ When you start a new church, if you begin informatively you promote healthy natural growth among these people.
▪ Heavy pruning can promote vigorous new growth, which can increase susceptibility to the disease.
▪ It's natural, promotes your child's growth and helps to protect against allergy and infection.
▪ An added benefit is that rabbits are commonly raised without the use of hormones or steroids to promote growth.
▪ The University has already taken steps to promote this growth and the Department will play the major role in these activities.
▪ This will promote growth in the buds below your pinch.
show
▪ Visual analysis of the data showed that the growth rates of the treatment groups were parallel until day 19 and then diverged.
▪ Reports showing heartier growth will weaken investors' appetite for fixed-income securities, he said.
▪ For Montague, that shows the scope for growth on the Continent - and the potential for Tiphook.
▪ And, he said, gasoline consumption in the United States showed no growth in November and December from a year earlier.
▪ Leisure group Vardon which owns the London Dungeon has shown less growth, adding 1p to 46p.
▪ Figure 7-1 shows the monetary growth rate for the United States measured in two ways.
▪ The capacity utilization report showed economic growth moderating from a fourth-quarter surge last year and suggested restrained price pressures.
stimulate
▪ He never shared the extreme supply-siders' faith that tax cuts would pay for themselves by stimulating faster growth.
▪ Strengthening of that infrastructure would stimulate self-sustaining growth in the private sector-growth which would continue after federal assistance had been withdrawn.
▪ More investment and more work should stimulate growth.
▪ This entailed a responsibility to stimulate the growth and development of new economic enterprises.
▪ Recent evidence suggests that buy-backs merely create banking commissions and do not stimulate growth.
▪ No one knows why this association exists; fat tissue could contain more estrogen, which can stimulate cell growth.
▪ Nevertheless, green manuring should not be considered as a means of stimulating quick plant growth.
▪ The rate cut is also a way to stimulate economic growth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exponential growth/increase etc
▪ If only passive properties determine the pressure elastic modulus, an exponential increase would have been expected.
▪ Most market professionals agree that the tax-deferred funds are a major force behind the exponential growth in stock prices.
▪ Text messaging has experienced exponential growth in the past year.
▪ This diversification has been shown to correspond closely to a simple exponential growth model.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a job that provides opportunities for personal growth
▪ DIY outlets reported sales growth of 1.8%.
▪ Eating nutritious food is important for healthy growth in children.
▪ emotional growth
▪ favorable signs of economic growth
▪ population growth
▪ the astonishing growth of on-line trading
▪ The US portion of the Internet is experiencing rapid growth in the number of networks connected to it.
▪ There are signs of new growth on the tree.
▪ There is a great deal of uncertainty about the world's population growth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For years, annexation has been the primary means by which city officials planned for growth.
▪ His pacifism, like his social philosophy, was a slow growth.
▪ Once again, the geographies of growth and decline are almost mirror-images of each other.
▪ The growth and health of the black and informal economies is one clear evidence of the disincentive effects of taxation.
▪ The rate of growth of total working population fell to zero by the mid 1960s.
▪ The recent dramatic growth of urban areas has been one powerful catalyst for change.
▪ The remainder of the transition process consists of the growth of these local regions of turbulent motion, whilst they travel downstream.
▪ This plant likes moving water and grows well when placed next to the filtering system, which enhances their normally slow growth.