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enlarge | Business English

enlarge
verb
uk /ɪnˈlɑːdʒ/us
[ I or T ]
to become bigger, or to make something bigger:
The inclusion of customs receipts will enlarge the available pool of money.
enlarged business/company/groupFollowing the 2009 merger, the enlarged group shut down 60 branches.
[ T ]
to produce a bigger copy of a document or photograph:
The wireless keyboard has a button for enlarging text to make it easier to read at a distance.
Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Examples of enlarge

enlarge
The former enlarged their herds according to the availability of empty land or means to finance short-run troubles.
Nodes of most interest are filtered for visualisation, geometrically enlarged, semantically zoomed and shown in tree context of relevantly selected other nodes.
Military spending further enlarged the permanent fiscal deficit.
The structure of scientific revolutions (2nd edn., enlarged).
We can see that the photon energy is enlarged greatly in the laboratory frame because of the relativistic effect.
Therefore, the stretching operation is applied once again for possibly enlarging the ellipsoid.
On the other hand, the dust voids shrink with an increase in the dust charge density, but enlarges with an increase in the dust temperature.
Once distinct and well-guarded policy positions begin to fall apart, other arguments become incorporated, softening the stance and, through this process, enlarging the associated actor-network.
Now, the second effect enlarges the amplitude of the sector's output cycle. 13.
At the same time, she greatly enlarged the circle of images that, according to her, represent the goddess.
The explanation for stopping eight years ago is that ' ' ... more recent findings ... have to be confirmed and\\or enlarged ... ' '.
From the enlarged phase space area it becomes clear that the transmission must become worse when enlarging the beam spot.
They generally started as small-scale traders and gradually enlarged the scale of their operations.
The pattern of tactile sitmulation corresponds roughly to a greatly enlarged visual image.
Just why is the isocortex so systematically and preferentially enlarged?
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