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{
"term": "increase",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "increase",
"heSheIt": "increases"
},
"pastSimple": "increased",
"pastParticiple": "increased",
"ingForm": "increasing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to become greater in amount, number, value, etc.; to make something greater in amount, number, value, etc.",
"sensetop": "increase in somethingincrease by somethingincrease from A to Bincrease with somethingincrease somethingincrease something by somethingincrease something from A to B",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Costs have **increased significantly**."
},
{
"text": "to **increase dramatically/substantially**"
},
{
"text": "The price of oil increased."
},
{
"text": "Oil increased in price.",
"contextForm": "increase in something"
},
{
"text": "The rate of inflation increased by 2 per cent.",
"contextForm": "increase by something"
},
{
"text": "The population has increased from 1.2 million to 1.8 million.",
"contextForm": "increase from A to B"
},
{
"text": "The effectiveness of the vaccine increases with time *(= the more time passes, the more effective it is)*.",
"contextForm": "increase with something"
},
{
"text": "Sun exposure may **increase the risk** of skin cancer.",
"contextForm": "increase something"
},
{
"text": "Our aim is to **increase the number** of women in the sport."
},
{
"text": "The company plans to **significantly increase** product availability over the next year."
},
{
"text": "They've increased the price by 50 per cent.",
"contextForm": "increase something by something"
},
{
"text": "Last month the reward was increased from $20 000 to $40 000.",
"contextForm": "increase something from A to B"
},
{
"text": "An **increasing number** of people live alone."
},
{
"text": "increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere"
},
{
"text": "Demand is expected to increase over the next decade."
},
{
"text": "Sales increased almost fourfold in this period."
},
{
"text": "The budget has increased by more than a third in the last year."
},
{
"text": "We need to increase productivity."
},
{
"text": "Progressively increase the intensity of the exercise over three weeks."
},
{
"text": "You can increase or decrease the font size."
}
],
"topics": ["Change, cause and effect", "Money"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "dramatically", "drastically"],
"verb + increase": ["be expected to", "be likely to"],
"preposition": ["by", "from", "in"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːs/",
"audio": "in/increase/increase__gb_4.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪz/",
"audio": "in/increase/increases__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːst/",
"audio": "in/increase/increased__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/increase/increasing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːs/",
"audio": "in/increase/increase__us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪz/",
"audio": "in/increase/increases__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːst/",
"audio": "in/increase/increased__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈkriːsɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/increase/increasing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (formerly also as encrease): from Old French encreistre, from Latin increscere, from in- ‘into’ + crescere ‘grow’."
}