aggressive expansion

collocation in English

meaningsofaggressiveandexpansion

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aggressive
adjective
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/əˈɡres.ɪv/us
/əˈɡres.ɪv/
showing anger and a willingness to attack ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
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/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofaggressiveandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Itsaggressiveexpansionin neighbouring countries is doing nothing to further this aim.
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For much of its history it was a tool ofaggressiveexpansion.
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Duringaggressiveexpansionit gained a poor reputation for provisioning and customer service.
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Factors cited were the heavy debt incurred during itsaggressiveexpansionin the 1990s, growing competition from mass discounters, and internet piracy.
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Aggressiveexpansioncontinued and within the first year the company had expanded from 60 to 99 stores.
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The league has grown considerably withaggressiveexpansionthroughout most of its history.
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By the early 1990s thisaggressiveexpansionplan led to a massive debt load and serious financial difficulties.
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Emboldened by this initial success, it began to pursue anaggressiveexpansioninto neighbouring countries.
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In 1996, the company beganaggressiveexpansionof its aftermarket parts department which had previously supplied service parts only for its own products.
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Afterwards, a moreaggressiveexpansionprogram was instituted when the company began to make a number of large acquisitions.
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Aggressiveexpansionof the school coincided with accreditation renewal issues and eventually the college closed in 1993.
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The result of thisaggressiveexpansionof credit was to strain the bank's balance sheet (loan portfolio quality ratios and capitalization ratios).
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Through anaggressiveexpansionof its academic funding, the university devoted over $56 million to research in 2011.
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It has anaggressiveexpansionplan and it calls its branches stores.
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Meritor'saggressiveexpansionin the 1980s led to the company losing millions of dollars in new business ventures.
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Luera has since been responsible for the theater's mostaggressiveexpansion, as several new shows, concepts, and formats were established and kept the theater doors open five nights per week.
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Tesco pursued anaggressiveexpansionof its hypermarket format, converting existing stores through extensions, and paying high prices for larger pieces of land to build new ones.
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