thousand-fold
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- adverb
- /ˈθaʊzənd foʊld/
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- Capital requirements can fall by a thousand-fold—even ten thousand-fold.
- multiplied thousand-fold
- ten thousand-fold
- even thousand-fold
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Capital requirements can fall by a thousand-fold—even ten thousand-fold.
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Why, I bet Mr. Woodley's profits will increase a thousand-fold!
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Possible space transportation vehicles: The aim is to bring down the cost of reaching orbit, while safety increases more than a thousand-fold.
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With the Oroville chamber lodged beneath several hundred feet of rock and earth, disruptive cosmic-ray counts automatically drop a thousand-fold.
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One of many concerns with all classic challenge studies is that the virus dose given to volunteers was several thousand-fold greater than the small amount of virus capable of causing human illness (estimated as 18-1,000 virus particles).
Academic text (2013) -
The company's profits grew a thousand-fold after the successful launch of their new product.
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After the new policy was implemented, the number of applicants increased a thousand-fold within a year.
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The technology's ability to process data improved a thousand-fold, making it much more efficient.
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Etymology
The word thousand-fold joins thousand and -fold, where -fold means 'times', as in twofold. So thousand-fold simply means 'a thousand times' or 'multiplied by one thousand'.