development
US /dɪˈvɛləpmənt/
noun Foundation · A2 Phát triển doanh nghiệp Môi trường & tiện ích
Definition
act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The development of the new product took nearly two years.
Word Family
Synonyms
- growth(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- evolutiona process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
Collocations
- Easy child development stagesdescribing child development stages (a young person of either sex)
- Medium research and development budgetto research and development budget, meaning to attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
- Hard sustainable economic development goalsdescribing sustainable economic development goals (capable of being sustained)
- Very Hard a startling turn of developments caught regulators off guardreferring to a startling turn of developments caught regulators off guard
- Hard sustainable developmentdescribing sustainable development (capable of being sustained)
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