growth meaning

• Noun: growth  growth
  1. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
     - growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis 
  2. A progression from simpler to more complex forms
     "the growth of culture" 
  3. A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
     "the growth of population"
     - increase, increment 
  4. Vegetation that has grown
     "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" 
  5. The gradual beginning or coming forth
     - emergence, outgrowth 
  6. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumour) 
  7. Something grown or growing
     "a growth of hair"

  Derived forms: growths

  See also: excrescent, grow, growing

  Type of: beginning, biological process, botany, development, evolution, flora, illness, malady, object, organic process, physical object, physical process, process, sickness, unwellness, vegetation

  Encyclopedia: Growth

• 
  [Business]
  AmE / noun [U]

  CAPITAL GROWTH, HIGH-GROWTH

  1

  an increase in the size, amount or degree of sth:

  Sales showed 0.3 per cent growth in the first quarter.

  rapid growth in consumer spending

  Online travel is the company's biggest growth area (= a part of the business where sales are growing fast).

  Internet companies are on a steep growth curve.

  ❖ fast/rapid/slow/steady/strong growth

  ◆ earnings/profit/revenue/sales growth

  ◆ growth companies/industries/markets/stocks

  2 (Economics )

  an increase in economic activity:

  a disappointing year of little growth in Britain and America

  the impact of weak economic growth and falling tax revenues

  an annual growth rate of 10%

  Growth forecasts were cut for Japan and Europe.

  ❖ fast/high/rapid/steady/strong/sustainable growth

  ◆ low/slow/sluggish/weak growth

• 
  [Economics]
  1) An increase in the value of an asset. If growth is sought in an investment, it is an increase in its capital value that is required.

  See also:

  growth stocks.

  2) The expansion of an economy, usually expressed in terms of an increase of national income.

• 
  [Medicine]
  n
  1
  a (1) : a stage in the process of growing (2) : full growth
  b : the process of growing
  2
  a : something that grows or has grown
  b : an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as a tumor)
  

• a growth experience:    [American slang]Eu ...
• a growth opportunity:    [American slang]Go ...
• balanced growth:    [Economics]growth ...

Examples

1. then it is often called survivor growth.
2. the urban growth created many problems.
3. ethylene is a growth hormone in plants.
4. does that limit the growth of prostitution?
5. the doctor arrested the growth of the disease ..