"expand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

expand verbo

expand + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 160
expand opportunities • expand one's business • expand one's operations • expand one's services • expand one's range • ...
verbo + expand
Kolokacji: 50
begin expanding • help expand • continue expand • plan to expand • seek to expand • continue to expand • hope to expand • ...
expand + preposición
Kolokacji: 44
expand into • expand beyond • expand upon • expand throughout • expanded since • ...
expand + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 82
expand rapidly • greatly expand • further expand • significantly expand • gradually expand • eventually expand • quickly expand • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 17
(4) significantly, easily
Kolokacji: 2
(5) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(7) steadily, quietly, wildly
Kolokacji: 3
2. quietly expand = cicho rozwiń quietly expand
  • To the northeast lies China, which is quietly but rapidly expanding its military presence along the border.
  • Indeed, the company has already been quietly expanding abroad (10 percent of its revenues are foreign) and has one plant in China already.
  • Pakistan has been quietly expanding the use of three isolated military bases by American Special Operations forces.
  • By the 1940s he is a force to be reckoned with, quietly expanding his empire throughout Ohio until no one stands in his way.
  • The program expanded quietly to stations across the country but with minimal penetration into the American heartland.
  • Still, it is quietly expanding to a point where it may soon claim a disproportionate share of the school budget and curriculum.
  • So passed a drill of a quietly expanding nuclear security initiative in the former Soviet Union.
  • Walter quietly expanded his business over the next 12 years, eventually finding a way to license its software to banks, and ultimately going public.
  • Instead, they quietly expanded their plans again to build to the Virginia state line.
  • The Army has also quietly expanded its presence here.
3. expand wildly = rozwiń lekkomyślnie expand wildly
(8) aggressively, sharply
Kolokacji: 2
(10) slightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 2
(12) northward, northwards
Kolokacji: 2
(13) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(14) massively, extensively
Kolokacji: 2
(15) fully, sufficiently
Kolokacji: 2
(17) horizontally, vertically
Kolokacji: 2

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