Growth ɡrəʊθ Lack Encourage Plant Personal Extra Examples

• lack of water will stunt the plant's growth.
• remove dead leaves to encourage new growth.
• nutrients for plant growth
• a concern with personal (= mental and emotional) growth and development

growth

1. the process in people, animals or plants of growing physically, mentally or emotionally
• Lack of water will stunt the plant's growth.
• Remove dead leaves to encourage new growth.
• nutrients for plant growth
• a concern with personal (= mental and emotional) growth and development
• It may be the most effective way to inhibit the growth of cancer cells
• growth hormones (= that make somebody/something grow faster)

Extra Examples

• Give the plants a good pruning to encourage growth.
• Lack of food had stunted his growth.
• the excessive growth of algae in rivers
2. an increase in the size, amount or degree of something
• The report links population growth with rural poverty.
• revenue/earnings/sales/productivity growth
• the rapid growth in violent crime
• the growth in the number of older people in the UK
• His book describes the growth of nationalism in Germany before the Second World War.

Extra Examples

• Recent years have seen a huge growth of interest in alternative medicine
• the exponential growth in world population
• the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1990s
• new measures to control the growth of traffic on the roads
• There was a rapid growth in the numbers of private cars.
• The factory has achieved a steady growth in output.
3. an increase in economic activity
• policies aimed at sustaining economic growth
• a period of slow growth
• a disappointing year of little growth in Britain and America
• strong/continued/future growth
• The country is experiencing a period of high growth.
• to stimulate/promote/drive growth
• to experience/achieve growth
• an annual growth rate of 10 per cent
• growth forecasts/prospects/opportunities/patterns
• markets with enormous growth potential
• contrasting UK and Swedish growth strategies

Extra Examples

• The economy enjoyed the highest growth rate in Asia.
• a vicious circle of low growth and low productivity
• real GDP growth
• Communications technology has proved to be a growth area.
4. a mass of cells caused by a disease that forms on or inside a person, an animal or a plant
• a malignant growth
• He had a cancerous growth on his lung.
5. something that has grown
• The forest's dense growth provides nesting places for a wide variety of birds.
• several days’ growth of beard
• Prune the shrub heavily now and fresh green growths should appear in March and April.