{
    "term": "growth",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the process in people, animals or plants of growing physically, mentally or emotionally",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Lack of water will stunt the plant's growth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Remove dead leaves to encourage new growth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "nutrients for plant growth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a concern with personal *(= mental and emotional)* growth and development"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It may be the most effective way to inhibit the growth of cancer cells"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**growth hormones** *(= that make somebody/something grow faster)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Give the plants a good pruning to encourage growth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lack of food had stunted his growth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the excessive growth of algae in rivers"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["healthy", "normal", "abnormal"],
                "verb + growth": ["encourage", "stimulate", "inhibit"],
                "growth + noun": ["hormone", "defect", "spurt"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an increase in the size, amount or degree of something",
            "sensetop": "growth in something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The report links **population growth** with rural poverty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**revenue/earnings/sales/productivity growth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **rapid growth** in violent crime",
                    "contextForm": "growth in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the growth in the number of older people in the UK"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His book describes the growth of nationalism in Germany before the Second World War."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Recent years have seen a huge growth of interest in alternative medicine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the exponential growth in world population"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1990s"
                },
                {
                    "text": "new measures to control the growth of traffic on the roads"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a rapid growth in the numbers of private cars."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The factory has achieved a steady growth in output."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Change, cause and effect"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "exponential", "significant"],
                "verb + growth": ["achieve", "experience", "maintain"],
                "growth + noun": ["rate", "potential", "prospects"],
                "preposition": ["growth in"],
                "phrases": ["a rate of growth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an increase in economic activity",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "policies aimed at sustaining **economic growth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a period of **slow growth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a disappointing year of little growth in Britain and America"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**strong/continued/future growth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country is experiencing a period of high growth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **stimulate/promote/drive growth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **experience/achieve growth**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an annual **growth rate** of 10 per cent"
                },
                {
                    "text": "growth forecasts/prospects/opportunities/patterns"
                },
                {
                    "text": "markets with enormous **growth potential**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "contrasting UK and Swedish growth strategies"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The economy enjoyed the highest growth rate in Asia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a vicious circle of low growth and low productivity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "real GDP growth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Communications technology has proved to be a growth area."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "exponential", "significant"],
                "verb + growth": ["achieve", "experience", "maintain"],
                "growth + noun": ["rate", "potential", "prospects"],
                "preposition": ["growth in"],
                "phrases": ["a rate of growth"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a mass of cells caused by a disease that forms on or inside a person, an animal or a plant",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a malignant growth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had a cancerous growth on his lung."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["cancerous", "malignant", "benign"],
                "verb + growth": ["have"],
                "preposition": ["growth on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "something that has grown",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The forest's dense growth provides nesting places for a wide variety of birds."
                },
                {
                    "text": "several days’ growth of beard"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Prune the shrub heavily now and fresh green growths should appear in March and April."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊθ/",
                "audio": "gr/growth/growth__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡrəʊθ/",
                "audio": "gr/growth/growth__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}