aggressively

aggressive | American Dictionary

aggressive
adjective
us/əˈɡres·ɪv/
using strong, forceful methods esp. to sell or persuade:
The company mounted an aggressive marketing campaign.
You have to be aggressive if you want to succeed in this business.

aggressively

adverbus/əˈɡres·ɪv·li/
The company is aggressively pursuing new business opportunities.

aggressive | Business English

aggressive
adjective
uk /əˈɡresɪv/us
done in a very forceful and competitive way in order to gain an advantage:
aggressive marketing/expansion/recruitingThrough aggressive marketing in Europe and Asia, the company pulled in an extra $4.5 billion and doubled its share prices.
aggressive campaigns/strategies/tacticsBritain’s second largest water company is planning an aggressive campaign to win industrial and business customers from rivals.
forceful, competitive, and determined to win or get what you want:
Many banks have become more aggressive in making loans to boost revenue growth.
The company has been losing market share for five years, primarily to aggressive competitors that have undercut the company on price.
FINANCE
used to describe investments that involve some risk or investors that take risks in order to gain the best results:
aggressive funds/investments/tradesHe moved his money into more aggressive investments, including hedge funds and publicly traded stocks.
aggressive buyers/sellers

aggressively

adverb/əˈɡresɪvli/

Examples of aggressive

aggressive
Of these 22 children, 11 were aggressive, high-risk children and 11 were low-risk, coparticipants in the problem solving skills training groups.
The developmental psychopathology approach allows us to conceptualize and compare aggressive and self-injurious conditions in terms of developmental timing and course trajectories.
These findings should ultimately result in earlier and more effective interventions for aggressive children.
Unlike many other types of cancers, only a small fraction of prostate cancer cases are aggressive and life-threatening.
Thus, aggressive behavior mediates some of the individual poverty effect yet classroom (and school) poverty still remains important.
Unreceptive females either flew away or prevented mating by a series of aggressive movements.
However, maltreated children's resulting hypervigilance for aggressive stimuli may have deleterious effects on their information processing in nonthreatening conditions.
In the late 1990s, most actors favored aggressive monetary easing to address persistent deflation and slow growth.
In their study of aggressive adolescent boys in residential mental health treatment, the stimuli were facial expressions of others depicted in photos.
Because our primary objective was to assess perceived containment among highly aggressive children, departures from a normal distribution are not particularly problematic.
Rejection, on the other hand, is more cleanly linked with disruptive and aggressive behavior profiles and it is unrelated to prosocial ones.
In the latter study, maternal proactive parenting practices with aggressive, disruptive 2-year-olds predicted fewer problems by kindergarten.
Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile - aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom.
Our present-day encounters with unfamiliar males in the waking life are not predominantly aggressive.
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