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fivefold

[ UK /fˈa‍ɪvfə‍ʊld/ ]
[ US /ˈfaɪvˌfoʊɫd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having five units or components

How To Use fivefold In A Sentence

  • The incentives increase fivefold for lending to small businesses. Times, Sunday Times
  • The greater division of labor enables one laborer to accomplish the work of five, 10, or 20 laborers; it therefore increases competition among the laborers fivefold, tenfold, or twentyfold.
  • He has more than doubled the staff, to 109, and plans to grow fivefold in five years.
  • •Associated with a fivefold increase in risk of oral, pharyngeal and esophageal cancers in people who have four or more drinks per day. Raising the Chance of Some Cancers With Two Drinks a Day
  • The report proposes a massive increase in funding for health in the poor countries, with a fivefold increase in support from wealthy countries and at least a doubling from the poor countries themselves.
  • The number of homeowners likely to be hit by inheritance tax has increased nearly fivefold under this government.
  • The incentives increase fivefold for lending to small businesses. Times, Sunday Times
  • India will expand its biotechnology sector fivefold in the next five years.
  • The most dynamic sector of all, however, was foreign trade, which expanded fivefold in real terms between 1716-20 and 1784-8.
  • CHEAP package holidays and tanning booths are being blamed for a fivefold increase in deadly skin cancer in 40 years. The Sun
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