| Meaning | Becoming greater or larger. |
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| Example | "increasing prices" |
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| Narrower | accelerative, acceleratory | tending to increase velocity |
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| accretionary | marked or produced by accretion |
| accretive | Growing by accretion |
| augmentative | increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree |
| incorporative | Growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories |
| maximizing, maximising | making as great as possible |
| multiplicative | tending or having the power to multiply or increase / increase in number or quantity or degree |
| profit-maximizing, profit-maximising | making the profit as great as possible |
| progressive | gradually advancing in extent |
| raising | increasing / increasing in quantity or value |
| Opposite | decreasing | Becoming less or smaller |
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| Spanish | creciente |
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| Catalan | creixent |
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| Adverbs | increasingly | advancing in amount or intensity |
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