Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
⬆️ To make bigger 📝 To add details 😮 To exaggerate 🔤 To write fully
to expand

to expand

5 3.5
To write the full form of an abbreviation or acronym
  • verb
  • /ɪkˈspænd/
translation icon : desarrollar
  • Plus also, if you just like, expand, expand the word holiday.
  • expand contracted forms

Examples

  • Basically, you can write a short selection of characters which will expand out into either a full word, a website.

  • I do hope you expand the GF option to the rest of your stores.

    Blog text (31)

  • The term NASA expands to National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

  • Can you expand the abbreviation CEO to Chief Executive Officer?

  • Often in technical documents, acronyms like HTML are expanded to Hypertext Markup Language.

Antonyms

to abbreviate
7 3.8

To shorten a word or phrase by using its first letters

Surface Forms

expand infinitive
expanded past
expanded past participle
expanding present participle
expands third person singular

Etymology

Expand comes from Latin ex- 'out' and pandere 'to spread', like 'opening out' a short form. To expand an abbreviation is to 'spread out' its letters into the full name. So to expand an acronym is to write its full form.