rate of growth
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3.4
- noun
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tasa de crecimiento
- Sir, with all due respect, at his rate of growth, that sedative is gonna become ineffective long before we're back on the ground.
- high rate of growth
- rate of growth of GDP
- annual rate of growth
So it has to come out of GDP itself, which means GDP shrinks or the rate of growth slows.
- So it has to come out of GDP itself, which means GDP shrinks or the rate of growth slows.
- And even if you correct for some errors, the rate of growth is pretty limited.
- You almost have to experience success at a certain rate of growth to kind of like remain mentally stable.
- And there's a rate of growth of the things we know, but the rate of growth of the things we don't know is actually, we have to assume growing faster.
Examples
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By 1990, the rate of growth had increased to nearly 100 new courses created annually.
Academic text (2013) -
Instructional context is likely to vary across semesters, and thus so are students' rates of growth.
Academic text (2008) -
But look at when the rate of growth changed.
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In other words, the rate of growth is beginning to slow.
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And in one year of the 1980s, our rate of growth was even a negative figure.
Academic text (1990) -
High population growth rates in developing regions mask even higher rates of growth in the regions' cities.
Academic text (1998) -
First, the rate of growth in electric demand has become much less predictable.
Academic text (2011) -
In developing countries, the rate of growth of GDP is the principal measure of economic progress and transformation.
Academic text (1992) -
Average annual rates of growth of the selected energy-intensive sectors vary from 5% to 10%.
Academic text (1999) -
The GDP is used to measure the rate of growth in the economy.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
The speed or amount at which something happens over time
∞
1.0
How fast someone or something moves
409
2.0
How fast someone or something moves
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2.7
How fast something grows over a period of time
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'rate' (speed or amount per unit) combined with 'growth' (increase) yields the speed at which something grows, and the linking preposition 'of' simply shows the relationship. This structure and logic are cross-linguistically common and follow standard noun phrase composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Rate of growth creates a simple picture: imagine measuring how much a plant gets taller each week. The word rate shows how fast something happens and growth shows the increase, so the phrase means 'the speed at which something increases'.