expansion

1. An act, process, or instance of expanding.Examples: "My new office is in the expansion behind the main building."Synonyms: annexcountableuncountable

2. An act, process, or instance of expanding.countableuncountable

3. An act, process, or instance of expanding.abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable

4. An act, process, or instance of expanding.Examples: "Secondly, the cyclical expansion now taking shape in the United States is starting from a relatively high level; it has much less headroom than earlier expansions that began from a deeply deflated recession base."; "In addition, new technologies are adopted which are less labour-using, thus unemploying workers. Over the postwar years, factors of this sort have contributed to a gradual upward drift in unemployment rates, even during expansions."countableuncountable

5. An act, process, or instance of expanding.countableuncountable

6. An act, process, or instance of expanding.countableuncountable