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twentyfold

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By twenty times as much

adverb
/ˈtwɛntiˌfoʊld/

: veinte veces

In Europe, its share grew twentyfold in four years to 10%.
grew twentyfold
increased twentyfold

Examples

While exports of industrial machinery grew twentyfold in real terms over the last decade (to $83 billion last year), the share of those exports produced by FFES grew from 35 percent to 79 percent.

Academic text (2004)
On Montserrat, Hugo was a crushing blow for tree-roosting and other highly specialized bat species; their numbers fell twentyfold.

Academic text (2003)
Shares had gone up twentyfold by year end, which is quite incredible as Law had struggled to find subscribers for the initial shares seven months earlier.
Why, some people... Mr. Munjak here... have seen their bank accounts grow twentyfold... in under a week through the trapezoidal method!

Bustin' Loose (1981)
They live in squander, but their living conditions in their home nation are twentyfold worse.

Blog text (15)
Sales of cubicle partitions have grown twentyfold over the last 20 years.
English-language newspaper circulation has increased twentyfold in several countries since the end of the Vietnam War.

Surface Forms

twentyfold positive

Morphology

twentyfold = twenty (transparent) = twenty + fold

The adverbial reading is the same morphological combination of 'twenty' + '-fold', expressing multiplication and easily derivable.

Etymology

Twentyfold is made from twenty and fold, where fold means 'times', like in twofold, so it tells how much something changed. That is why to say something increased twentyfold means it grew 'twenty times' as much.