economic expansion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeconomicandexpansion
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economic
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofeconomicandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It was written in years of extraordinaryeconomicexpansionand revolutionary turmoil.
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By the late 1990s, though, the government was clearly focused on enhancing the infrastructure so as to prepare the way for greatereconomicexpansion.
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The distance of the business-cycle index from zero indicates either the strength of aneconomicexpansionor the depth of a recession.
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Decolonization was actually often accompanied byeconomicexpansionat first.
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Since governors do not control monetary or trade policy, their efforts to claim credit foreconomicexpansion focus primarily on attracting trade and investment.
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This put in place the conditions that may have sustained co-operative endeavours and which may explain the region's greateconomicexpansionduring the eighteenth century.
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We have already examined factors other than illiteracy that possibly contributed to theeconomicexpansionand/or decline of the industry.
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Economicexpansionin a given country increases imports from trade partners, transmitting booms and election-calling incentives from one state to another.
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Dyers were losing access to credit which had been essential to theeconomicexpansionin the first two decades of the century.
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Continuing demographic andeconomicexpansionuntil the 1970s gave comfort to the movement.
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As an example, the strongeconomicexpansionof the years 1994-1997 did not produce a significant impact on agriculture.
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In the long run, therefore, industrial workers benefited from the strongeconomicexpansionof the war years.
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The increase in pension eaxnings was clearly due to theeconomicexpansionand full employment of the 1950-1974period.
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Beyond the material impositions of machinery and bodies, radio spawned new visions for imaginary flights while securing opportunities foreconomicexpansionthrough networks of capital and exchange.
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Parallel with its diamond deposits, the country has severe constraints toeconomicexpansion.
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Hence, he comments, agriculture could become 'the motor ofeconomicexpansion'.
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This perhaps suggests that parliamentary leaders have more flexibility to engineer aneconomicexpansion than fixed-term presidential leaders, since everyone knows the latter has incentives to do so.
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Crucial to the city's development and its spatial geography is an understanding of the 'oscillating' movements ofeconomicexpansionand contraction and waves of physical building and removal.
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Economicexpansioncertainly played a role.
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The number of duels apparently peaked during the 1770s and the 1780s, coinciding with a period ofeconomicexpansion, though politics was also becoming more confrontational in that period.
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