- an act of increasing or making something increase in size, amount or importance
- a period of rapid economic expansion
- Despite the recession the company is confident of further expansion.
- The expansion of higher education will continue.
- The book is an expansion of a series of lectures given last year.
Extra ExamplesTopics Change, cause and effectb2- He opposed expansion of the army and navy.
- In order to finance expansion on this scale, the government has relied heavily on borrowing.
- She proposed a modest expansion of unemployment benefits.
- The board decided to embark on aggressive overseas expansion.
- The company believes there is scope for expansion in this sector.
- The economy is still showing healthy expansion.
- The museum is undergoing a major expansion.
- The rate of expansion of our overseas trade has been spectacular.
- a great age of expansion in trade and science
- an $80 million expansion of its Madras factory
- expansion into the luxury car market
- the largest prison expansion in American history
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- considerable
- enormous
- …
- show
- experience
- undergo
- …
- occur
- take place
- plan
- programme/program
- expansion into
- expansion in
- expansion to
- …
- a period of expansion
- the rate of expansion
- potential, room, scope, etc. for expansion
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin expansio(n-), from Latin expandere ‘to spread out’, from ex- ‘out’ + pandere ‘to spread’.Want to learn more?
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