2. Verb. (third-person singular of increase) ¹
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Definition of Increases
1. increase [v] - See also: increase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Increases
Literary usage of Increases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"California and Massachusetts recently enacted two large increases in their ...
Cigarette Tax increases and Cigarette Prices After scientific evidence of the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"This not only gives the increase due both to the radio and the audio frequency
amplifiers, but in addition increases the detector tube efficiency since ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1864)
"I HAVE already spoken of the natural defects of democratic institutions ; each
one of them increases in the same ratio as the power of the majority. ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"When, during a two or three years period, he gradually increases his order, "there
sa reason ! " Book Review advertisers are now getting over 7000 plus ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"In Table III all the substances are oxidizing agents and we find that the EMF
increases during the passage of the alternating current. ..."
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