increase

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Thân thiện

The manager announced an increase in the team's budget.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • The act of making something larger or greater: "Increase" refers to the action of causing something to become bigger in size, amount, number, or intensity.
   • The amount by which something becomes larger: "Increase" can also refer to the specific quantity or degree of growth.
   • A process of growth or augmentation: It describes the process of becoming larger, more numerous, or more important over time.

2. Verb:

   • To make something larger or more numerous: To cause a rise in the size, amount, number, or degree of something.
   • To become larger or greater: To undergo a rise or growth in size, amount, number, or intensity.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:

  • The company announced a 10% salary increase for all employees.
  • There has been a steady increase in global temperatures over the past century.
  • The sudden increase in demand caught the suppliers by surprise.

• Verb:

  • The government plans to increase funding for public education.
  • Please increase the volume; I can't hear the movie.
  • Our profits have increased significantly this quarter.

Advanced Usage

• "On the increase": Becoming more frequent or widespread; growing.
  • Crime in the area is on the increase.
• "Increase by a factor of...": To multiply by a specific number.
  • The population increased by a factor of three in fifty years.

Variants and Related Words

• Increasingly (adverb): More and more; to an ever greater degree.
  • It is increasingly difficult to find affordable housing.
• Increased (adjective): Made or become greater.
  • The project requires an increased level of commitment.

Synonyms

• Verb: Augment, enlarge, expand, raise, boost, escalate.
• Noun: Rise, growth, gain, augmentation, expansion, escalation.

Antonyms

• Verb: Decrease, reduce, diminish, lessen, lower.
• Noun: Decrease, reduction, decline, drop, fall.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Increase in something: To grow with respect to a particular quality or aspect.
  • He has increased in confidence since starting the new job.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the act of increasing something
   • he gave me an increase in salary
2. the amount by which something increases
   • they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare
3. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
   • the increase in unemployment
   • the growth of population
4. a change resulting in an increase
   • the increase is scheduled for next month
5. a quantity that is added
   • there was an addition to property taxes this year
   • they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks

Verb

1. make bigger or more
   • The boss finally increased her salary
   • The university increased the number of students it admitted
2. become bigger or greater in amount
   • The amount of work increased

Từ đồng nghĩa

• step-up
• increment
• growth
• addition
• gain