expanding population

collocation in English

meaningsofexpandandpopulation

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expand
verb[I or T]
uk
/ɪkˈspænd/us
/ɪkˈspænd/
to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofexpandandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In anexpandingpopulationthere is an excess of singular mutations, indicated by mutation-drift disequilibrium.
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Finally, the epidemiological evidence supports a need for targeted diabetes care in thisexpandingpopulation, whose needs are diverse.
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The growth of the capital prevented the police from providing adequate protection or control of itsexpandingpopulation(in itself a further complicating factor).
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The terracing and irrigation schemes which once supported anexpandingpopulationand state fell into disuse.
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The question of the most effective means of providing appropriate care to anexpandingpopulationis a subject of current debate.
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Food was now insufficient to support theexpandingpopulation.
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From the 1970s, however, the economy went into decline, so that by the 1980s there was little or no growth in a country with a rapidlyexpandingpopulation.
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We have to plan for a large andexpandingpopulation.
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Such areas, with a rapidlyexpandingpopulationputting greater pressures on their social services and education provision, have already suffered particularly badly.
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We are about the world's largest food importer, and we are anexpandingpopulation.
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What is crucial is not simply anexpandingpopulationbut the range of services that that population will need.
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It is one of the most significantlyexpandingpopulationareas in the country.
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It is anexpandingpopulation, with a great demand on services, especially health.
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It will also enable them to provide new houses for a possiblyexpandingpopulation.
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I am thinking in terms of a factor ofexpandingpopulation.
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It is an area with anexpandingpopulation.
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