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What does expand mean?
Definitions in simple English

expand Verb

— If something expands, it becomes bigger. The company is looking at expanding into new products. The airline plans to expand its service into Ireland. With rapidly expanding population in India, business is booming. He later expanded on his initial statement, giving more details.

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— verb extend in one or more directions The dough expands — verb become larger in size or volume or quantity his business expanded rapidly — verb make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity expand the house by adding another wing — verb (= boom, thrive) grow vigorously The deer population in this town is thriving business is booming — verb (= inflate) exaggerate or make bigger The charges were inflated — verb (= extend) expand the influence of The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent — verb (= elaborate) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation

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extend enlarge spread increase swell widen grow stretch dilate develop broaden open spread out inflate augment unfold unroll stretch out rise diffuse amplify grow larger expansion bulge unfurl strengthen reach magnify distend blossom bloom wide splay multiply make wider lengthen elaborate blow up blow apply aggrandize vast thrive step up spread-eagle sprawl smear protrude propagate prolong

Topics expand topics

What do people use expand to talk about?
States

Big
States Big

Big area

  • What words refer to an area becoming big?
    expand spread
  • What words refer to making an area big?
    expand
States Big Big area

Big container, volume
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Extend
States Quantity More

Increase

Conjugation expand conjugation

How do you conjugate expand?

expand · verb

Examples expand examples

How do I use expand in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Is it necessary to expand human knowledge with space exploration?
Maybe I ought to expand the memory.
There is a scheme to expand the company.
In this way, the students of the University have the opportunity to expand their cultural horizons.
The ray of reason must expand again.
Can you expand on that?
Detours expand your knowledge of the surroundings.
Our company wants to expand into a new market.
I hope that your future activities will expand our relationship with your firm.
Many astronomers assume that the universe continues to expand forever.
Good films expand one's horizons.
Could you please expand the topic a little?
The company shelved plans to expand into Asia.
The company has decided to expand its business to Germany.

Movie subtitles

Amazingly, this life thrived in an extremely hostile environment, which meant we needed to expand our narrow view of where life might be found.
Brokenwood needs to expand or get left behind.
We can expand the store.
And I am positive, Frank, that if we expand our policy we'll expand our results as well.
I hope to expand a bit.
Would you care to expand that statement?
Expand that piece you wrote.
Plenty of room to expand.
I mean, you want to expand, all right.
If we throw it on the fire, it will expand and blow up.
The idea as I see it is that we expand the molecules and the ring grows bigger and drops off.
Listen to those muscles expand.
Expand search radius.
Start with a birdcage and expand, huh?
It takes money to expand.
To expand the living room, also a tradition.
Spaniards drove Charlemagne back when he tried to expand his empire.
Yes. Would you care to expand that statement?
You could always write TV scripts, you know, expand the one-line joke into the hour-and-a-half spectacular.
Inhale, expand.
Up and out, expand, inhale and let's hear it.
Remember, expand.
Well, there's been a rumour going around that NASA's going to expand.
Nobody said we shouldn't expand!
I cannot let this thing expand beyond this planet, nor do I intend to kill a million or more people to stop it.
We plan to expand our department of Psychiatric Research here.
He needs money to expand the garage.
Now we're starting to expand around here.
We expand the molecules and the ring grows bigger and drops off.
Gotta expand into Kita.
Now our plan is to further explore and expand.
And we can expand the system and irrigate the fields and double the food supply.
At the same time, 38th Army, by diversionary attacks, managed to forty and expand a bridgehead north of Kiev.
Areas can expand and, uh, projects can originate.
Soon it will be necessary to expand our feeding range. to increase the energy sources available to us.
We'll have to expand and get bogged down in bureaucracy.

News and current affairs

The EIB should expand its lending.
This work is set to expand as more than 40 million tons of invasive alien plants are harvested for power-station fuel.
But no bubble can expand forever.
As each year passes, China's markets expand worldwide, and its domestic market comes to represent a greater percentage of its own GDP.
This fear is manifesting itself in an incipient effort to expand education to include the cultivation of feeling and imagination.
They will expand their pool of thinkers to include scientists from necessarily innovative regions.
Similarly, she has launched programs such as mWomen, designed to expand and support mobile technology that increases women's independence, security, and access to health care and vital knowledge.
I am particularly proud of the last achievement, because, by working in partnership with my fellow Mozambicans to expand immunization coverage, I believe that I have played a part in bringing it about.
But if owners of oil reserves think that prices will fall in the long run, they gain an incentive to explore for oil and expand production now in order to sell as much oil as possible before the fall.
Nationalism and imperialism will lead you nowhere; you cannot expand geographically without serious costs to your economic growth and your personal enrichment.
The Trans-Baikal region could relatively easily expand ties with the resource-hungry Asian economies, to the benefit of all.
Weak neighbors are states that the Kremlin can control, so why not expand Russian power by letting Ukraine slide into protest and anarchy if by doing so it brings that country back under Putin's thumb?
Smaller but more competitive manufacturing firms lack the resources to expand in more advanced technological sectors.
Somehow, they must find ways to help the US expand its exports.
Meanwhile, as Wolfgang Streeck writes persuasively in New Left Review, democratic governments, facing what seemed, in the 1960's, like an endless vista of innovation and growth, were quick to expand the welfare state.
What matters is their output of modern industrial goods (and services), which can expand without limit as long as domestic demand expands simultaneously.
Obama wants to expand federal command-and-control regulation further (though the courts have stopped his extension of some regulatory powers).
But its preferred template was to expand the North America Free Trade Agreement (Canada, Mexico, and the US) to the Andean countries and include huge doses of non-trade-related issues, which they swallowed.
Meanwhile, non-P5 nuclear-weapons states continue to expand their arsenals, with Pakistan and India estimated to have nearly tripled their stockpiles during the past decade.
We need to expand access to these technologies rapidly, while helping people whose livelihoods depend on the coal industry.
NEW YORK - Over the last two years, the majority of countries in the world chose to expand public spending in order to buffer the impact of the global financial crisis on their economies and populations.
But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.
For example, the momentum could expand southward and stimulate ASEAN, which has bilateral FTAs with all three countries, to join the group.
It would likely seek to expand and deepen the infant Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement that President Barack Obama committed the US to last year.
But using the trilateral FTA to expand its economic and political influence would require China to increase transparency, open its service sector, and remove non-tariff barriers.

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