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

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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