fourfold
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4.7
- adverb
- /ˈfɔrˌfoʊld/
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cuatro veces
- In China alone, she said, greenhouse gas emissions are projected to increase fourfold in the next 25 years.
- increase fourfold
What we now retrospectively would call autism also went up by about fourfold.
- What we now retrospectively would call autism also went up by about fourfold.
Examples
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If the world economy continues to expand at 3 percent annually, the output of goods and services will increase fourfold over the next half-century, reaching $172 trillion.
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The number of people affected by insecurity has increased fourfold since the 1970s, according to the assessment, further adding to disproportionate poverty.
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There, the number of suicides has been multiplied fourfold between 1995 and 2005.
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Although teachers' salaries had risen fourfold by September 1992, they continued to lag behind the pace of inflation.
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Between 1927 and 1977, a span of just fifty years, Iraq's population increased fourfold, from just under 3 million to just over 12 million.
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In the first half of 1992, the number of U.N. soldiers and police officers increased fourfold; by the end of the year, they will exceed 50,000.
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We know that, as the Washington Post reported in April, "the number of terrorist attacks worldwide increased nearly fourfold in 2005 to 11,111, with strikes in Iraq accounting for 30 percent of the total."
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U.S. banks' global activities have grown substantially over the past decade. Among the globally most active U.S. banks, total outstanding cross-border exposure has grown fourfold from 2003 to 2013.
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The Fed's balance sheet has expanded fourfold from 800 billion to 3.3 trillion (approx.) in the last four years.
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The number of students enrolling has increased fourfold since last year.
Synonyms
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To multiply an amount by four
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4.6
Having four parts or being four times as large
By four times as much
Compounds
- Specialized
A number that shows how two things with two choices are related, for example male and female
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Morphology
Etymology
Fourfold comes from the number four plus fold, which meant 'times' or 'layers'. Used as an adverb, fourfold means 'by four times' or 'to four times as much'. Think of folding a piece of paper twice to get four layers to see how the amount grows.