Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Twenty times as many.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Twenty times as many.
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- adjective By a factor of
twenty . - adverb By a factor of twenty.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mollis responds that the conflict created by a legislator receiving contributions from lobbyists is "twentyfold" what it is for someone in his office.
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Jihadist violence had grown exponentially, insurgent attacks had increased nearly 800 percent since 2005, and suicide attacks had increased twentyfold.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Like Pacific before it, Tri-City soon was doing many more back operations; within three years, Tri-City's billings for spine surgery on workers' compensation patients soared twentyfold to $65 million.
In Small California Hospitals, the Marketing of Back Surgery John Carreyrou 2012
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Jihadist violence had grown exponentially, insurgent attacks had increased nearly 800 percent since 2005, and suicide attacks had increased twentyfold.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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He is the MBE who did very little for it, but has since made amends twentyfold.
Battling and brave: Paul Collingwood retires from Test cricket 2011
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In "Casablanca" we're told that Ilsa was due to fly to Lisbon, but in reality, Mr. Lochery notes, the scene at the city's airport with smugglers, spies and refugees was really "Casablanca" magnified "twentyfold."
The Capital of Intrigue in a World at War Robert Wilson 2011
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Jihadist violence had grown exponentially, insurgent attacks had increased nearly 800 percent since 2005, and suicide attacks had increased twentyfold.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Jihadist violence had grown exponentially, insurgent attacks had increased nearly 800 percent since 2005, and suicide attacks had increased twentyfold.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The currency-in-circulation component of the monetary base—which before the expansion had constituted 95 percent of the monetary base—has risen by a little less than 10 percent, while bank reserves have increased almost twentyfold.
RETURN TO PROSPERITY Arthur B. Laffer 2010
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The leader of the savings glut was China, which in 1996 had $107 billion in foreign exchange reserves and by 2009 had increased that figure twentyfold.
The Shadow Market Eric J.Weiner 2010
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