increase

increase
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noun
ADJECTIVE
big, considerable, dramatic, drastic, enormous, exponential, huge, large, major, marked, massive, significant, substantial, vast
moderate, modest, slight, small
apparent
rapid, sharp, steep, sudden
gradual, incremental, progressive, steady
fivefold, tenfold, etc.
10%, etc.
double-digit (esp. AmE)

Sales of beef have experienced double-digit increases.

concomitant (formal), corresponding, proportional, resulting

Their reputation has improved, bringing a corresponding increase in revenues.

average, mean

The average increase in value last year was 4.3%.

net, overall, total
across-the-board

The pay rise represented an across-the-board increase of between 9% for the highest paid and 32% for the lowest paid worker.

annual, monthly, etc.
projected, proposed

Retirement planning often starts with projected cost-of-living increases.

pay, salary, wage
budget, dividend, fare, price, rent, spending, tax, tuition (AmE)
population, productivity, temperature
VERB + INCREASE
demonstrate, experience, see, show

Many parts of the country have experienced an increase in unemployment.

This year saw an increase in the number of job applicants.

Profits show a steady increase.

enjoy

The country is enjoying the biggest increase in business confidence for years.

achieve

We achieved a small increase in profits of £3 257.

bring, bring about, cause, lead to, produce, result in

Intensive farming has brought about an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.

The war resulted in a massive increase in government spending.

observe

You would expect to observe an increase in births during peacetime.

predict

Some companies are predicting price increases of 30% or more.

propose, suggest

He proposed a large tax increase.

indicate, reflect, represent

Improved profitability may indicate an increase in competitiveness.

be accompanied by, involve, mean

The measures to improve the health service will involve an increase in government spending.

announce, post, report

The company reported a 9.5% increase in third quarter losses.

INCREASE + VERB
occur
PREPOSITION
on the increase

Burglaries in the area are on the increase.

increase in

There has been an increase in demand for two-bedroom houses.

increase on, increase over

The figures show a sharp increase on last year's turnover.

increase to

a dividend increase to 11.4 pence

PHRASES
a rate of increase
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verb
ADVERB
considerably, dramatically, drastically, enormously, exponentially, greatly, markedly, significantly, substantially, tremendously, vastly
slightly
gradually, progressively

Progressively increase the intensity of the exercise over three weeks.

rapidly, sharply, steeply
steadily
slowly
twofold, threefold, etc.

Sales increased almost fourfold in this period.

VERB + INCREASE
be expected to, be likely to

Demand is expected to increase over the next decade.

PREPOSITION
by

The budget has increased by more than a third in the last year.

from
in

to increase in amount/number/price/size

to

Last month the reward was increased from $20 000 to $40 000.

with

Disability increases with age.

Increase is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑amount, ↑appetite, ↑asset, ↑attendance, ↑awareness, ↑catch, ↑circulation, ↑concentration, ↑confidence, ↑consumption, ↑cost, ↑count, ↑crime, ↑deficit, ↑demand, ↑density, ↑discomfort, ↑emission, ↑employment, ↑enrolment, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑export, ↑fare, ↑fee, ↑funding, ↑heat, ↑humidity, ↑import, ↑incidence, ↑income, ↑index, ↑inequality, ↑inflation, ↑investment, ↑length, ↑light, ↑margin, ↑migration, ↑momentum, ↑mortality, ↑noise, ↑number, ↑odds, ↑output, ↑pace, ↑pain, ↑participation, ↑percentage, ↑population, ↑premium, ↑pressure, ↑price, ↑production, ↑productivity, ↑profit, ↑proportion, ↑rate, ↑reliability, ↑rent, ↑return, ↑revenue, ↑salary, ↑sale, ↑scope, ↑size, ↑speed, ↑stature, ↑stock, ↑strength, ↑supply, ↑tax, ↑temperature, ↑tension, ↑tourism, ↑trade, ↑traffic, ↑turnover, ↑unemployment, ↑usage, ↑value, ↑velocity, ↑violence, ↑volume, ↑vote, ↑wage, ↑weight, ↑width, ↑wind, ↑workforce, ↑workload
Increase is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accountability, ↑accuracy, ↑allocation, ↑amount, ↑angle, ↑anxiety, ↑appeal, ↑appetite, ↑appreciation, ↑asset, ↑attendance, ↑availability, ↑awareness, ↑base, ↑benefit, ↑bid, ↑blood pressure, ↑budget, ↑burden, ↑bureaucracy, ↑capability, ↑capacity, ↑chance, ↑charge, ↑cholesterol, ↑circulation, ↑clarity, ↑clout, ↑competence, ↑competition, ↑complexity, ↑concentration, ↑confidence, ↑congestion, ↑consumption, ↑cooperation, ↑cost, ↑count, ↑credibility, ↑danger, ↑deficit, ↑demand, ↑density, ↑dependence, ↑diameter, ↑difficulty, ↑disparity, ↑diversity, ↑dividend, ↑dosage, ↑dose, ↑duration, ↑duty, ↑earnings, ↑effectiveness, ↑efficiency, ↑effort, ↑employment, ↑endurance, ↑engagement, ↑enjoyment, ↑enrolment, ↑erosion, ↑excise, ↑expenditure, ↑export, ↑exposure, ↑extent, ↑fare, ↑fee, ↑fine, ↑fitness, ↑flexibility, ↑flow, ↑force, ↑frequency, ↑funding, ↑gain, ↑height, ↑hold, ↑humidity, ↑immigration, ↑impact, ↑importance, ↑incentive, ↑incidence, ↑income, ↑inequality, ↑influence, ↑intake, ↑intensity, ↑interest, ↑investment, ↑knowledge, ↑lead, ↑length, ↑level, ↑leverage, ↑likelihood, ↑limit, ↑literacy, ↑majority, ↑manpower, ↑margin, ↑membership, ↑mobility, ↑momentum, ↑mortality, ↑motivation, ↑number, ↑occurrence, ↑odds, ↑offer, ↑output, ↑overdraft, ↑pace, ↑pain, ↑participation, ↑pay, ↑payment, ↑penalty, ↑penetration, ↑pension, ↑per cent, ↑performance, ↑point, ↑pool, ↑potency, ↑potential, ↑power, ↑precision, ↑premium, ↑presence, ↑prestige, ↑price, ↑probability, ↑production, ↑productivity, ↑proficiency, ↑profile, ↑profit, ↑profitability, ↑quota, ↑range, ↑rate, ↑ratio, ↑reach, ↑relevance, ↑reliability, ↑reliance, ↑rent, ↑repertoire, ↑representation, ↑reserve, ↑resilience, ↑return, ↑revenue, ↑risk, ↑role, ↑safety, ↑salary, ↑sale, ↑saving, ↑scale, ↑scope, ↑score, ↑security, ↑self-confidence, ↑setting, ↑severity, ↑share, ↑size, ↑skill, ↑speculation, ↑speed, ↑spending, ↑stability, ↑stake, ↑stamina, ↑stock, ↑strain, ↑strength, ↑stress, ↑subsidy, ↑success, ↑suffering, ↑supply, ↑support, ↑surveillance, ↑tariff, ↑tax, ↑taxation, ↑temperature, ↑tempo, ↑tendency, ↑tension, ↑tolerance, ↑tourism, ↑trade, ↑traffic, ↑tuition, ↑turnout, ↑turnover, ↑uncertainty, ↑understanding, ↑unemployment, ↑unpopularity, ↑urgency, ↑usage, ↑use, ↑usefulness, ↑utility, ↑value, ↑velocity, ↑vigilance, ↑visibility, ↑vitality, ↑vocabulary, ↑voltage, ↑volume, ↑vulnerability, ↑wage, ↑wastage, ↑wealth, ↑width, ↑workforce, ↑workload, ↑worry, ↑worth

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