explosive growth

collocation in English

meaningsofexplosiveandgrowth

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explosive
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈspləʊ.sɪv/us
/ɪkˈsploʊ.sɪv/
exploding or able to ...
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growth
noun
uk
/ɡrəʊθ/us
/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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(Definition ofexplosiveandgrowthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexplosive growth

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They have seen an even moreexplosivegrowth.
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There has been anexplosivegrowthin the number of these organisations.
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There has been anexplosivegrowthin medical technology, especially in expensive but effective drugs.
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There is a boom, anexplosivegrowth, in travel—and particularly in air transport.
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We shall not see much more of the ratherexplosivegrowthin the numbers of agencies that we have seen in recent years.
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From the early 1890s onwards, however, there was anexplosivegrowthwhich resulted in credit cooperatives being much more evenly spread throughout the state.
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Due toexplosivegrowthand extensive recurrence the prognosis is poor.
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The first represents regular oscillations within the plasma slab, while the second gives rise toexplosivegrowthat the slab centre or at the edges.
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The language and the law field may be about to experience moreexplosivegrowth.
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A possibility can be provided by theexplosivegrowthof a number of nuclei in the transition region.
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The woods today are less disturbed, otherwise we would not be seeing anexplosivegrowthin the population of roe deer.
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Given theexplosivegrowthof this field across disciplines and the subdisciplines of history, historians of gender and colonialism might productively focus on the risks and pitfalls of interdisciplinarity.
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Furthermore, however suitable the friendship paradigm may have been in an era of relatively narrow channels of interchange, theexplosivegrowthof bilateral contact has rendered it entirely inappropriate.
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The city grew on the expansion of theexplosivegrowthof the sugar industry but was also a major centre for literary societies and cultural organizations.
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The contrast between the situation a few years ago and today reveals anexplosivegrowthof research into, and appreciation of, the many important interactions between neurons and glia.
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Even programmes to combat famine have apparently merely allowedexplosivegrowthin population numbers.
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As he said, this is anexplosivegrowth.
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It was the 1960s which showed a completely different approach and attitude, and anexplosivegrowthof the problem.
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However, it is worth recalling who else was standing behind and beside this figurative bonfire ofexplosivegrowthand over demand.
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There has been anexplosivegrowthin the internet, and in its transformation of businesses.
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