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.
Random good picture Not show
181) The Boards also aimed to expand sales through the provision of hire and credit facilities.
182) The Drugs unit aims to expand pupils' knowledge of drugs so that they appreciate that only some drugs are socially acceptable.
183) As it continues to expand the speed drops and the expansion eventually comes to a halt.
184) This would help expand Moby's loyalties and prevent him from becoming too dependent on his main daytime companion.
185) As it was, Jobs forbade his hardware team to provide even the capability to expand to 5 12K.
186) However, as we said earlier, this stock may expand or contract depending upon the net flow of newly issued bills.
187) The business will employ 36 workers at first with plans to expand.
188) The following chapters expand on the practical application of reducing the ambiguity produced from a pattern recogniser.
189) The rise in imports reflects the efforts of foreign companies to expand sales networks and improve service here.
190) They expand by imagination and try to rise above the limitations of the ordinary forms of common life.
191) At the centre of these events was the announcement that Sellafield wanted to expand its activities.
192) Controls over foreign exchange, credits and scarce materials could hardly force anybody to expand.
193) After 1972 the semi-autonomous administration made efforts to rehabilitate and expand the system.
194) Intended to develop recognition and efficient production of key functional phrases, improve listening ability, and expand basic business vocabulary.
195) Others note the difficulty of trying to expand through acquisitions, especially those that meld differing national cultures.
196) Chellam also said the memory-chip maker will expand production capacity more than 40 percent this year.
197) He enters upon long digressions, and his illustrative anecdotes expand into separate episodes.
198) The cramped dock area began to expand eastwards across the newly exposed terrain.
199) Officials say they will expand glyphosate capacity by about 50 % over the next three years.
200) The money was desperately needed to expand the system to accommodate an ever-increasing population.
201) We have in-creased the number of boxes that expand in a more detailed way some materials of the text.
202) Huizenga plans to expand into the areas of electronic security and billboard advertising.
203) The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained.
204) Now the co-op has closed its ranks and refuses to expand.
205) A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices.
206) The popularity of organised tours visiting the Balearics and the interest of the locals has encouraged the club to expand.
207) The samples foam and expand during the combustion process, and they carbonize and extinguish right after being deviated from fire,[www.Sentencedict.com] without melting and dropping and with low smoking.
208) Can you rearrange things on the window or dialog to expand horizontally?
209) And with special packaging and installation, we eliminate the problem of cross-sensitive temperature and strain caused by expand with heat and contract with cold of coil winding.
210) Mr Fu wants to expand his business with the lofty ambition of competing with the industry leader, Rosetta Stone.
More similar words: expansion, taxpayer, pan, pant, company, panic, panel, accompany, Hispanic, Spanish, companion, expert, participant, keep an eye on, expect, export, expose, explain, expense, explode, exploit, explore, keep company with, expertise, exposure, explicit, expected, experiment, explosion, experience.