{
    "term": "increase",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "increase",
            "heSheIt": "increases"
        },
        "pastSimple": "increased",
        "pastParticiple": "increased",
        "ingForm": "increasing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to become greater in amount, number, value, etc.; to make something greater in amount, number, value, etc.",
            "sensetop": "increase in somethingincrease by somethingincrease from A to Bincrease with somethingincrease somethingincrease something by somethingincrease something from A to B",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Costs have **increased significantly**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **increase dramatically/substantially**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The price of oil increased."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Oil increased in price.",
                    "contextForm": "increase in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The rate of inflation increased by 2 per cent.",
                    "contextForm": "increase by something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The population has increased from 1.2 million to 1.8 million.",
                    "contextForm": "increase from A to B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The effectiveness of the vaccine increases with time *(= the more time passes, the more effective it is)*.",
                    "contextForm": "increase with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sun exposure may **increase the risk** of skin cancer.",
                    "contextForm": "increase something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our aim is to **increase the number** of women in the sport."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company plans to **significantly increase** product availability over the next year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They've increased the price by 50 per cent.",
                    "contextForm": "increase something by something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Last month the reward was increased from $20 000 to $40 000.",
                    "contextForm": "increase something from A to B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "An **increasing number** of people live alone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Demand is expected to increase over the next decade."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sales increased almost fourfold in this period."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The budget has increased by more than a third in the last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to increase productivity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Progressively increase the intensity of the exercise over three weeks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can increase or decrease the font size."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Change, cause and effect", "Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["considerably", "dramatically", "drastically"],
                "verb + increase": ["be expected to", "be likely to"],
                "preposition": ["by", "from", "in"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːs/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increase__gb_4.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪz/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increases__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːst/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increased__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increasing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːs/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increase__us_1_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪz/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increases__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːst/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increased__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/increase/increasing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (formerly also as encrease): from Old French encreistre, from Latin increscere, from in- ‘into’ + crescere ‘grow’."
}