growing segment

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowingandsegment

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growing
adjective
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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segment
noun[C]
uk
/ˈseɡ.mənt/us
/ˈseɡ.mənt/
one of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandsegmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Currently, the largest category of organic production is fresh produce, although organic dairy was the most rapidlygrowingsegmentin the 1990s36.
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Retail sales trends for this sector indicate it is the fastestgrowingsegmentof the $10.4 billion organic food industry, with a growth of 77.8% between 2002 and 20033.
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Dementia incidence tends to increase with age, and the elderly are the fastestgrowingsegmentof the population.
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We know from the statistics that even though women constitute agrowingsegmentof society, this trend is not reflected in their share of employment.
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In the early 2000s, it became agrowingsegment, as the modelling and animation software matured and the rendering capabilities of computers improved.
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Cattle and dairy farming are agrowingsegmentof the agricultural landscape.
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Electronic publishing is also agrowingsegmentof the publishing industry.
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Customized programs, which are tailored for and offered to executives of a single company, represent the fastestgrowingsegmentof the market.
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As of 2005, underwire bras were the fastestgrowingsegmentof the market.
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In the 1990s corporate and business aviation became the fastestgrowingsegmentof activity for the airport.
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Most of the fish-raising is done by home production, with agrowingsegmentdevoted to rice field aquaculture.
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Commerce and services are probably the fastestgrowingsegmentof the local economy.
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Further, the heat produced by the chip proved an obstacle to deploying it in a laptop computer, which had become the fastestgrowingsegmentof the personal computer industry.
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