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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sixfold
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
increase
▪ Mrs Whitehouse reports that the use of the F-word on television has increased sixfold in 1991.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The plant has increased its production sixfold.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Coal prices rose sixfold, those of electricity, gas and petrol rose fourfold, and public transport fares were doubled.
▪ County's share of New York Stock Exchange trading has grown sixfold, to 1.6%.
▪ Mrs Whitehouse reports that the use of the F-word on television has increased sixfold in 1991.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sixfold

Sixfold \Six"fold`\, a. [AS. sixfealand.] Six times repeated; six times as much or as many.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sixfold

Old English sixfeald; see six + -fold. Similar formation in Danish sexfold, Dutch zes-voudig; German sechsfältig, Swedish sexfaldig.

Wiktionary
sixfold

a. Having six component parts. adv. times six, multiplied by six.

WordNet
sixfold

  1. adj. having six units or components [syn: sextuple]

  2. adv. by a factor of six; "the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills" [syn: six times]

Usage examples of "sixfold".

He had no need of a wife, particularly not one who called him a fivefold fool and made him a sixfold fool by sending him on to such a cell without even a kiss.

I again asked Congress to provide funds to build or modernize five thousand schools and to approve a sixfold increase in the number of college scholarships for students who would commit to teaching in underserved areas.

I again asked Congress to provide funds to build or modernize five thousand schools and to approve a sixfold increase in the number of college scholarships for students who would commit to teaching in underserved areas.

And at that, using so much capacity for so long on a single task brought the chance of a sixfold simultaneous error to the thirty per cent level, so there was one chance in three that when they built the final version and switched it on something would have gone irremediably wrong.

The market value of their home had multiplied threefold or so, but because of the leverage supplied by their mortgage loan -- an effect exactly like that of buying stocks or commodity futures on margin -- they had more than sixfolded the value of their own capital invested in the venture.

Since the real assets of the company in four years had increased in value sixfold to more than $200 million, not to mention the tremendous profits that were just beginning to roll in, Ripley Forte computed that he had been diddled out of a round $100 million.