Synonym: broaden, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, magnify, spread, swell, unfold. Antonym: contract, shrink. Similar words: expansion, taxpayer, pan, pant, company, panic, panel, accompany. Meaning: [ɪk'spænd] v. 1. extend in one or more directions 2. become larger in size or volume or quantity 3. make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity 4. grow stronger 5. exaggerate or make bigger 6. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing 7. expand the influence of.
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151) Local people are angry that they weren't told about plans to expand the airport.
152) Funding is being sought to allow the network to expand its outreach activities.
153) There is sometimes a tendency for a generalist service to expand into specialisms with which it is in daily contact.
154) Philips said it took the stake as part of its policy to expand in the new electronic media and cable networks.
155) Murdoch said he hopes to expand beyond what those two companies offer and use satellites for data transmissions via computers.
156) Where internet trading will continue to expand rapidly is in business-to-business transactions.
157) He is more eager and able to expand our faith than we are to have it done.
158) A company may expand by increasing the share capital and the number of directors.
159) Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber.
160) We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
161) Virtuoso trombonist he is not, though his efforts to expand the instrument's profile must be admired.
162) Can not afford national advertising, so relies on verbal testimonials to expand business, so eager to please.
163) The owner must have either an established business desiring to expand or a sound business plan.
164) Accounting systems of financial control expand the flow of information, so enabling closer monitoring for planning and control.
165) Our recently announced plans to significantly expand our hosting infrastructure are moving rapidly.
166) So, too, they can be eroded by others who seek to expand their own bases of power.
167) But as soon as they are used to expand the production of consumer goods they will actually cause business conditions to deteriorate.
168) Next plans further international subsidiaries and is to expand its software engineering division.
169) The proceeds will be used to fund research and development and to expand the business.
170) Art escaped his kin to expand his horizons, so he knows exactly what drove Mark away.
171) The purpose of this letter is to expand on what I outlined at dinner.
172) Mercury prepares to expand at the double WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion.
173) Already a £4.1 billion industry, quick-service restaurants continue to expand as quickly as ever(sentencedict.com), despite the economic trend.
174) You might have some fun, make new friends, expand your own personal horizons.
175) Many authorities were making a conscious effort to expand the social group from which their secondary pupils were drawn.
176) He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times, breathing deeply.
176) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
177) The tiny tracheae, which are strengthened with rings in their walls, do not flatten but shorten and expand like concertinas.
178) These factors, he argues, created a situation where many clearing banks were well placed to expand.
179) It was a mighty effort to expand and complete a process of reform that had its roots in the New Deal.
180) Occasionally a hot spot would erupt and an orange halo would expand into the night.
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