Crossword-Solution: EXPANSION 9 letters, 127 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

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Word Word Type Definition
Expansion n. The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of
being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
Expansion n. That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the
expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.
Expansion n. Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure
space.
Expansion n. Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp.,
increase of the circulation of bank notes.
Expansion n. The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the
expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.
Expansion n. The operation of steam in a cylinder after its
communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues
to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
Expansion n. The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model
or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of
construction.

We have 127 clues for the answer “EXPANSION”

Clue Answers
Growth for the WNBA or NWHL 1 answer
Increase in the number of teams in a league, e.g. 1 answer
reflation 1 answer
the act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope 1 answer
DILATATION 2 answers
sufflation 3 answers
Wide area 3 answers
amplification 4 answers
flowers of speech 4 answers
increase of size 4 answers
uprush 5 answers
magnification 5 answers
storm in a teacup 5 answers
expansionism 7 answers
BIG talk 8 answers
dilation 8 answers
pandiculation 8 answers
distension 9 answers
DECLINE (ant.) 11 answers
A DISCUSSION THAT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 11 answers
ADDING INFORMATION OR DETAIL 11 answers
Much ado about nothing? 13 answers
hyperbole 13 answers
multiplication 13 answers
periphrasis 17 answers
verboseness 17 answers
accretion 18 answers
Tall Story 18 answers
circumlocution 18 answers
prolixity 18 answers
using euphemisms 18 answers
verbal effusion 18 answers
upsurge 19 answers
Verbiage 19 answers
pleonasm 19 answers
tautology 19 answers
verbosity 19 answers
spaciousness 20 answers
wordiness 20 answers
inflation 21 answers
comprehensiveness 21 answers
wideness 21 answers
distance across 22 answers
prolongation 24 answers
punctation 24 answers
broadness 24 answers
Lengthening 25 answers
windiness 25 answers
Largeness 25 answers
loquacity 25 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with EXPANSION (5)

Rapid growth of free trade zones has established a significant expansion of manufacturing for export, especially wearing apparel.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Over the past 20 years the tourist industry has grown rapidly, creating a construction boom for new hotels and the expansion of older ones.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
When I see people strut enough to be cut up into bantam cocks, I stand dormant with wonder, and says no more.” It was eventually known that Gabriel, though paid a fixed wage by Bathsheba independent of the fluctuations of agricultural profits, had made an engagement with Boldwood by which Oak was to receive a share of the receipts—a small share certainly, yet it was money of a higher quality than mere wages, and capable of expansion in a way that wages were not.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Even as the advent of the microcomputer and other trends fueled a tremendous expansion of hackerdom, the File (and related materials such as the AI Koans in Appendix A) came to be seen as a sort of sacred epic, a hacker-culture Matter of Britain chronicling the heroic exploits of the Knights of the Lab.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Standards are essential to facilitate interconnectivity and access, but, BATTIN said, as LYNCH pointed out yesterday, if set too soon they can hinder creativity, expansion of capability, and the broadening of access.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with EXPANSION (3)

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
Edith Wharton
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
Osho
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
Daniel Quinn Ishmael
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (2021).