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  • 61increase — 1. verb 1) demand is likely to increase Syn: grow, get bigger, get larger, enlarge, expand, swell; rise, climb, escalate, soar, surge, rocket, shoot up, spiral; intensify, strengthen, extend …

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  • 62increase — 1. verb 1) demand is likely to increase Syn: grow, get bigger, get larger, enlarge, expand, swell, rise, climb, mount, intensify, strengthen, extend, spread, widen 2) higher expectations will increase user dem …

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  • 63increase — I. verb (increased; increasing) Etymology: Middle English encresen, from Anglo French encreistre, from Latin increscere, from in + crescere to grow more at crescent Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to become progressively greater (as in… …

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  • 64Increase the Pressure — Infobox Album | Name = Increase The Pressure Type = Album Artist = Conflict Released = June 1984 Recorded = April 1984 Genre = Anarcho punk Length = 46:53 Label = Mortarhate Producer(s) = Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5… …

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  • 65INCREASE — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index increase noun addition (2), attachment, buildup, exaggeration, expansion, increase (2), outbreak adjective accumulative …

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  • 66increase — verb (increased, increasing) –verb (t) /ɪnˈkris / (say in krees) 1. to make greater in any respect; augment; add to. 2. to make more numerous. –verb (i) /ɪnˈkris / (say in krees) 3. to become greater or more numerous: sales increased. 4. to… …

  • 67increase — [14] The crease element in increase (which occurs also, of course, in its antonym decrease) means ‘grow’. It comes from Latin crēscere ‘grow’ (source of English crescent), which combined with the prefix in to produce incrēscere ‘grow in, grow on’ …

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  • 68increase of capital — An increase in the stated capital of a corporation the same involving a fundamental change in the corporation, and authorized only where the power to increase is expressly conferred by law. 18 Am J2d Corp § 226 …

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  • 69increase of shares — See increase of capital; natural increase of shares …

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  • 70increase — [14] The crease element in increase (which occurs also, of course, in its antonym decrease) means ‘grow’. It comes from Latin crēscere ‘grow’ (source of English crescent), which combined with the prefix in to produce incrēscere ‘grow in, grow on’ …

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