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jump
noun[ C ]
uk /dʒʌmp/us
a sudden large increase in the price, value, or amount of something:
The tech stocks in the index posted the biggest jumps.
a jump in sthUniversities and colleges have reported a dramatic jump in the number of applications.
a jump of 50%/150 points/€150, etc.Net casino revenues increased by 19% to $41 million, a jump of 138% over the fourth quarter of 2008.
a 25%/90 point/20 pence, etc. jumpHeavyweight stock helped to drag the FTSE 100 higher with a 27.5p jump to 742p.
a jump from sthThe increase in home repossessions, showing a 31% jump from last year's figures, is depressing property values.
a jump in profits/sales/inflation
a big/sharp/significant jump
 get/have a jump on sb/sthUSinformal
to have an advantage over other companies or people:
Big companies are always looking to get a jump on their rivals.

Examples of jump

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With the return to peacetime discourse, interest in the scientific approach jumped sharply.
The star performer, as for several years past, was polypropylene, which jumped from under 3.1m tonnes in 1989 to over 3.3m tonnes last year.
Suddenly, they both jumped up, pulled off their remaining cotton restrictions and plunged straight into the water.
As already noted the rate of net foreign investment first jumped to significant levels in the 1850s and 1860s.
The shepherds in turn sit and admire the lovely jumps of the satyrs.
The initial adjustments reflect jumps in the state variables, and have to be accounted for separately.
Slippage was readily evident as sporadic jumps in strain during testing.
The book would have benefited from a tighter structure: it too often jumps between eras and personages.
Probability of these jumps is reflected in the current temperature.
Occasionally, we observed jumping spiders preying on marked flies shortly after release.
In their study, participants were required to make fast movements to targets that either remained stationary or jumped to a new location.
In one condition, participants were instructed to correct their movements on-line when the target jumped.
Unemployment jumped from a low of 2.7 per cent to a high of 4.3 per cent in 1966.
As far as we know, the results concerning maps with bounded jumps are new.
Figure 1 shows costs accumulating after less than ten years with interior systems jumping another 10% of initial construction ever y seven years.
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Collocations withjump

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These are words often used in combination with jump.

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big jump
To my surprise, unemployment took a bigjump, and the real exchange rate suffered a sizable increase.
bungee jump
In my argument, pregnancy is the bungeejump.
double jump
It would, in fact, impose a doublejump, as it were, on some people who may be possibly undeserving, but on others who most certainly are deserving.
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