Expansion Meaning
/ɪkˈspænʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn act, process, or instance of expanding.
nounAn act, process, or instance of expanding., The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
Sentence Examples
Shareholders were concerned about the company's swift expansion overseas.
The expansion is aging.
A period of rapid economic expansion
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company announced the ____ of its factory to meet growing demand for its products.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The rapid ____ of the city has led to increased traffic congestion and a shortage of housing.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from French expansion, from Latin expānsiō. By surface analysis, expand + -sion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] 1919, a time when African American hopes for a just future following their service in World War I were dashed by violent reassertions of white supremacy, including the efflorescence and expansion of the KKK into the Midwestern and northwestern U.S."
— 2015, Heidi Nast, “Pit Bulls, Slavery, and Whiteness in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.”, in Rosemary-Claire Collard, Kathryn Gillespie, editors, Critical Animal Geographies, page 138:
"Mother of mighty Rome's imperial line, / Delight of man, and of the powers divine, / Venus, all-bounteous queen! whose genial power / Diffuses beauty in unbounded store / Through seas, and fertile plains, and all that lies / Beneath the starred expansion of the skies."
— a. 1804, James Beattie, “The Beginning of the First Book of Lucretius”, in The Poetical Works of James Beattie (The Aldine Edition of the British Poets), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1866, →OCLC, pages 170–171:
"Secondly, the cyclical expansion now taking shape in the United States is starting from a relatively high level; it has much less headroom than earlier expansions that began from a deeply deflated recession base."
— 1971, National Industrial Conference Board, The Conference Board Record - Volume 8, page 4:
"In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions."
— 1978, Fred Caloren, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Gingrich, Is the Canadian Economy Closing Down?, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 88:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company announced the ____ of its factory to meet growing demand for its products.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The rapid ____ of the city has led to increased traffic congestion and a shortage of housing.