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• n  (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
• n  a progression from simpler to more complex forms
  the growth of culture
• n  a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
  the growth of population
• n  vegetation that has grown
  a growth of trees
  the only growth was some salt grass
• n  the gradual beginning or coming forth
• n  (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
• n  something grown or growing
  a growth of hair

• IN biology, growth is a distinguishing mark of life; in economics it has long seemed the sine qua non of the good life.
• Analysis: New growth figures raise fears of inflation, but the consensus remains that China can avoid a hard landing.
• After decades of rapid economic growth, Asia's environment is at a tipping point.

• growing
• maturation
• development
• ontogeny
• ontogenesis
• increase
• increment
• emergence
• outgrowth

• nondevelopment
• decrease
• decrement

News & Articles

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• Growth group to move out of Gwinnett
  Council for Quality Growth sets up office inthe Perimeter area to reflect expansion to metro area.
  June 21, 2013 - Gwinnett Daily Post
• Growth continues at Prairie Farms
  In keeping up its continued growth record Prairie Farms, doing business as LuVel Dairy Products, is making some additions to its operation in an effort to increase efficiency and production, according to General Manager Jimmy Briscoe.
  June 21, 2013 - The Star-Herald
• ECRI Growth Rate Slows to Lowest Pace Since Early January
  ECRI Growth Rate Slows to Lowest Pace Since Early January
  June 21, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in Los Angeles Times
  The Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation," Bernanke said.
• Barack Obama in The Associated Press
  Export growth leads to job growth and economic growth,Obama said as he named 18 business, labor and government leaders to a new export advisory council.
• Richard Clark in Wall Street Journal
  These changes are crucial to drive future growth and realize the promise of being a global health care leader for the long term,Chairman and Chief Executive Richard T. Clark said in a press release.