burgeoning
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- adjective
- /ˈbɜrdʒənɪŋ/
- With a burgeoning population, the city is rapidly expanding its infrastructure to accommodate new residents.
- burgeoning population
- burgeoning literature
- burgeoning market
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- A person who would arrive smack in the center of her burgeoning life.
- With the burgeoning research that we now have in neuroscience and technology, we're able to now understand what otherwise was very stigmatized.
Examples
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How can Canada seek to regulate this new, burgeoning method of distribution?
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It's a burgeoning market, you're gonna make a fortune.
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This created a new threat to the burgeoning united England.
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Is there a burgeoning crime scene up there?
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So we see this burgeoning student loan debt problem.
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But internationally, Earth Day seems to have tapped into an already burgeoning environmental awareness.
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Hispanic individuals are a rapidly burgeoning minority in the United States today.
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I want to talk about your recent travels and what's going on with Shrimu and your burgeoning career as an entrepreneur.
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Art making may be a solitary business, but institutions of the arts became a burgeoning collective enterprise in the 1970s and 1980s.
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At present, newcomers are a burgeoning population of ESL students who stand at the intersection of education, language, and content.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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4.1
Starting to appear and become important
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3.5
Something that gets much bigger or more common very quickly
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3.8
Growing and very successful, like a busy café or arts scene
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4.1
Beginning to show promise in a job or activity
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3.4
A town or business that is growing quickly and doing well
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8.1
Beginning to exist and showing signs of future growth
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4.1
Very successful and making a lot of money
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4.2
Growing quickly and doing well, like a business or town
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4.1
Growing very quickly in size or cost
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3.5
Growing and doing well, especially in business
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7.0
Growing quickly and doing very well, especially in business
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Etymology
Burgeoning comes from the old French word bourgeon, which meant a 'bud' on a plant, so think of something beginning to open and grow. That's why burgeoning means starting to grow or expand quickly.