| 单词 | expansion |
| 释义 | expansion (ɪkspænʃən ) Word forms: expansions variable noun Expansion is the process of becoming greater in size, number, or amount. ...the rapid expansion of private health insurance. [+ of] ...a new period of economic expansion. The company has abandoned plans for further expansion. Synonyms: increase, development, growth, spread Collocations: expansion of production Expansion of production was limited by access to market. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In particular, this would happen if resource efficiency enables an expansion of production in the economy, and an increase in the rate of economic growth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Government planning and controls required any substantial expansion of production to be for the export market alone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The new factory allowed the expansion of production and the service of more geographical territories. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The focus was put on the improvement of production quality, an increase of production efficiency, and expansion of production capacity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The expansion of trade and economic integration enable poor nations to better themselves. Times, Sunday Times You could make a better claim that the 1906 election-which took place amid the expansion of trade, transport and investment- was the first to be held in a globalised economy. Times, Sunday Times The expansion of trade requires the ability to measure and compare all kinds of things, not just length, volume and weight, but also time itself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Tolls might be refunded for long distance trips to encourage expansion of trade - drawbacks - particularly applied to the coal trade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A major mechanism for the expansion of trade was peace. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He admitted that the cut to capacity could throw up expansion opportunities. Times,Sunday Times Not that the financial crisis has stopped him looking for expansion opportunities. Times, Sunday Times Analysts welcomed the news as evidence of the group's ability to secure further big expansion opportunities. Times, Sunday Times I have always been a great believer in the need to look for expansion opportunities during recession, when your competitors may be distracted and slower to react. Times, Sunday Times To achieve it, a business should enjoy high returns on capital, strong cash generation, plentiful long-term expansion opportunities and a powerful franchise. Times, Sunday Times Shell's earlier, 100,000 barrels-a-day expansion phase was expected to cost at least 6.2 billion. Times, Sunday Times Others are in rapid expansion phase and are able to use heavy capital costs to avoid tax. Times, Sunday Times As a company grows during the geographical expansion phase, it should consider its strategy for embedding its culture. Times, Sunday Times The defensive expansion phase relied on the tariff, railway construction, and land settlement to build the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the name change took place, the school underwent an early expansion phase that saw the construction of several buildings for academic and housing purposes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Debts almost doubled to 9.5million after an overambitious expansion plan. The Sun It told investors last year that it had concocted a way of saving $3 billion from the expansion plan. Times, Sunday Times The airport has drawn up a 250m expansion plan that includes a bigger terminal, more parking stands for planes, a hotel and a new taxi-way. Times, Sunday Times Sales rebounded and two years ago it announced an ambitious expansion plan. Times, Sunday Times The funds will also be used to fuel an ambitious expansion plan, under which the shipping giant would more than double its capacity in the next decade. Times, Sunday Times Over the next five years it will spend up to 7.5bn to support a bold expansion programme that includes 40 new vehicles. Times, Sunday Times It has also sensibly scaled back on its store expansion programme. Times, Sunday Times The impressive growth led to the decision to launch the online service and to speed up its store expansion programme. Times, Sunday Times The takeoff, at 9.30pm, marks the beginning of an expansion programme that will make the most of the shuttles before they are retired in 2010. Times, Sunday Times It has also scaled back its store expansion programme from a proposed 650,000 sq ft of additional space to 450,000 sq ft. Times, Sunday Times Room was left on the side of the temple during an expansion project and was leased out to vendors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The expansion project will include 150 new tenants and the construction of two parking structures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The expansion consists of a $247 million building renovation and expansion project and a $40 million equipment upgrading project. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A $9.1 million renovation and expansion project was completed in 1995. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1960, an expansion project increased the seating to forty-four. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That would be the slowest expansion rate in a decade. Times, Sunday Times The factor 1/3 in the expansion rate term should be replaced by 1/2 in that case. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are dynamical forces acting on the particles in the universe which affect the expansion rate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this case, the expansion rate of the universe will increase without limit. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With dark energy, the expansion rate of the universe initially slows down, due to the effect of gravity, but eventually increases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Companies either reduced capital spending completely or learnt to finance their expansion with cash. Times, Sunday Times The company used the proceeds from its flotation to pay off debt, finance the expansion of one of its mines and develop three other mines. Times, Sunday Times But one of the biggest headaches she had to contend with was a reluctance by the banks to finance the expansion of her business. Times, Sunday Times With such interest deductible, but dividends paid out of taxable profits, companies have a huge incentive to borrow to finance their expansion, resulting in excessive 'leverage' and systemic risk. Times, Sunday Times It will have to find some fresh capital to help finance the expansion. Times, Sunday Times An initial public offering on the stock market was planned for later this year to fuel expansion. The Sun An online stationery store has won 3m of investment to fuel expansion overseas. Times, Sunday Times Business growth continued to fuel expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are among the highest-cost producers in the industry and many have leveraged up aggressively to fund their expansion. Times, Sunday Times The president wants the 'rich' subjected to higher tax rates to fund an expansion of government. Times, Sunday Times They must find ever more capital to fund their expansion. Times, Sunday Times Previously it was felt that the distribution division helped to fund the expansion of the aviation division into new markets. Times, Sunday Times The company has the balance sheet to fund that expansion. Times, Sunday Times We should all be proud of the studios' history and be excited for their future expansion. Times, Sunday Times What's more, we have agreed a 500m facility to finance future expansion. Times, Sunday Times The house was purchased to accommodate future expansion. Christianity Today Inland also has plenty of borrowing facilities to fund future expansion. Times, Sunday Times Workspace raised 60 million to fund future expansion in the summer. Times, Sunday Times Geographic expansion and diversification into consultancy has helped the firm's international sales to grow 46% a year, from 10.9m in 2007 to 23.2m in 2009. Times, Sunday Times He also has hopes that more geographic expansion will pay off in the next few months. Times, Sunday Times It also works with market research firms for clients considering geographic expansion. Times, Sunday Times The same applies to geographic expansion. Times, Sunday Times The index increases if catches increase for any reason, e.g. higher fish biomass, or geographic expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It then launched a global expansion drive, making it one of the world's biggest retailers. The Sun Or the sign of mature global expansion plans. Times, Sunday Times Such has been club football's global expansion that national borders are no longer obstacles to intense club rivalries. Times, Sunday Times The online giant might have big plans for global expansion, but if the reviews on the site can't be trusted, they're in trouble. The Sun Bosses regard the site, which currently employs around 700 people, as 'absolutely pivotal' to their plans for global expansion. The Sun However, as conditions improve and as prospective sellers become less fearful, we anticipate a gradual expansion of supply in the autumn. Times, Sunday Times The increasing awareness of the important role of air defense and the gradual expansion of the base led to the activation of other support units. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rise of private insurance was accompanied by the gradual expansion of public insurance programs for those who could not acquire coverage through the market. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their activity passed, by gradual expansion, from the judicial sphere into that of administration and legislation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Governments should aim for a neutral monetary policy oriented toward long-run economic growth, by gradual expansion of the money supply. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For more than a decade the economy has been propelled by a blaze of public spending, infrastructure building, industrial expansion and exports. Times, Sunday Times Business has been supported by sustained high oil prices that have brought in large government surpluses, leading to an unprecedented industrial expansion. Times, Sunday Times Standardisation and speed were shibboleths; industrial expansion, no matter how profound, still could not keep pace with the population's hunger for cheap goods. Times, Sunday Times Industrial expansion continued in the region up to 1917. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Industrial expansion was concentrated in large-scale enterprises using modern technology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The international expansion comes amid difficult retail conditions at home. Times, Sunday Times The company said that it would continue its international expansion. Times, Sunday Times It also confirmed its 'commitment to continuing the strategy and the international expansion of the group'. Times, Sunday Times The company has grown by investing in product development and international expansion. Times, Sunday Times Tension had been building since 2008 - when the company lost 8.3million after international expansion as the credit crunch took hold. The Sun After the war, new legislation limited expansion of urban areas into the countryside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Reasons cited were limited expansion possibilities, capacity constraints due to crossing runways, and noise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The plants are mostly shrubs and trees; most of its families have a cosmopolitan distribution in the tropics and subtropics, with limited expansion into temperate regions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The winners for those areas will be announced this year, clearing the way for a major expansion of fracking. Times, Sunday Times I think we need to see homes being retrofitted; we need to see a major expansion of solar panels on homes and in heating. Times,Sunday Times We weren't yet at the bursting-at-the-seams point that dictates major expansion, yet we dreamed big. Christianity Today He claimed that a major expansion of sanctions 'will trigger a long anticipated endgame of the present global crisis', and called them 'illegal, unreasonable and counter-productive'. Times, Sunday Times The move would mark a major expansion of the winter flu prevention campaign. Times, Sunday Times Cheaper land bank purchases should lock in margin expansion for years to come. Times, Sunday Times How else to explain him targeting 'moderate to nice operating margin expansion' this year (report, page 39)? Times, Sunday Times Its discount status will likely keep sales on the right track, despite the uncertain economic environment, although the rising cost of commodities such as wheat may inhibit margin expansion. Times, Sunday Times Little interest in product innovation and disregard for the long-term future or sustainable growth, all in relentless pursuit of margin expansion. Times, Sunday Times In the 1990s, as lawmakers began adapting crime policies, such as 'zero-tolerance' and 'three-strikes laws', to fit public schools, the private security industry saw an opportunity for market expansion. The Times Literary Supplement Market expansion also requires privatization and individualization, more and more consumers must purchase things to meet their own requirements. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The treaty was an attempt at regulating trade and market expansion between the two regions, but was ultimately unsuccessful. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This and credit market expansion brought them profit margins of around 50% from 2004 through 2009. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Speculative bubbles are characterized by rapid market expansion driven by word-of-mouth feedback loops as initial rises in asset price attract new buyers and generate further inflation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This includes a massive expansion of the city's congestion charging zone, an aboveinflation fare rise and a council tax rise. Times,Sunday Times That they support a massive expansion of renewable energy and the subsidies it requires. Times, Sunday Times The rise of a newly label-conscious middle class has triggered a massive expansion in the market for luxury goods. Times, Sunday Times But the remedial measures have carried huge costs, including a massive expansion of government borrowing. Times, Sunday Times The chancellor has opted for a more pragmatic measure, a massive expansion of the school cadets programme. Times, Sunday Times With any extra runway not opening for another decade, this modest expansion could be complete by 2018, providing a welcome increase in airport capacity. Times, Sunday Times There was only modest expansion in residential work and civil engineering activity grew marginally. Times, Sunday Times It saw a modest expansion in 1906 and a boatyard opened in 1909. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It amounts to an additional monetary expansion of $85 billion each month. Times, Sunday Times Monetary expansion makes it cheaper to borrow and many people did, especially in the form of sub-prime mortgages, who shouldn't have done. Times, Sunday Times We need further monetary expansion. Times, Sunday Times Valuations are high, arguably supported by low interest rates and [the] record pace of central bank monetary expansion. Times, Sunday Times If it had not supported demand through unconventional monetary expansion, the impact on household incomes would have been a lot worse. Times, Sunday Times Overall pre-tax profits for the year were 5 per cent down due to the firm's ongoing expansion and hiring of staff. The Sun It has brought spectacular images of distant galaxies and planetary gas clouds, and found evidence of dark energy, the mysterious force behind the ongoing expansion of the universe. Times, Sunday Times Halm believed that many terrestrial features could be explained by an ongoing expansion of the earth's crust. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ongoing expansion and renovations are due to increase the current enrollment of 275 students to 410 by the 2009-2010 school year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Commercial traffic to the port ended in the 1970s, although there has been an ongoing expansion of finance and industrial businesses in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Profits are thought to have fallen substantially last year because of the extra costs of the new rules and the overseas expansion. Times, Sunday Times A decade later it began to make its own products, listing on the stock market and beginning an overseas expansion in 2000. Times,Sunday Times We know that overseas expansion introduces many challenges, from deciphering foreign languages and legal systems to dealing with currencies. Times, Sunday Times But overall sales rose 6.5 per cent to 1.43billion as the chain's overseas expansion continued. The Sun Profits have risen 46% a year from 2.6m in 2006 to 8.2m in 2009, boosted by infrastructure investment and overseas expansion. Times, Sunday Times The scale of the planned expansion has made some observers nervous about the investment. Times, Sunday Times A planned expansion of the world's biggest wind farm has been abandoned because of the impact on the local population of red-throated divers. Times, Sunday Times However, it has quickly emerged that, having set ambitious targets for writing new business, he did not have the cash to fund the planned expansion. Times, Sunday Times About one in ten companies are looking to fund planned expansion into new export markets, up from 3 per cent in the same period last year. Times, Sunday Times He believes there could be 'bumps along the way' on the road to the planned expansion, which suggests that this may be a longer-term buyand-hold punt. Times, Sunday Times Further south, where the terrain was covered in thick forest, the population expansion began much later - between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago. Times, Sunday Times A switch from drought to wetter conditions led to a population expansion and the spread of early humans to other continents about 70,000 years ago. Times, Sunday Times And most of the population expansion that has so crowded the planet has taken place since 1960. Times, Sunday Times An era of slower economic growth, thriftier shoppers and a more gentle population expansion are likely to keep grocers on the back foot, analysts have warned. Times, Sunday Times Investment in infrastructure has lagged behind the region's population expansion and construction boom. Times, Sunday Times The magnetic field outside the plasma can not prevent this expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The zoo's urban location prevented any expansion and meant the society could not build a new one. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Infection often covers the host mushroom preventing the expansion of the pileus (cap) and causing the pileus to deform and fuse to the stipe (stalk). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It contrasts with containment, which means preventing the expansion of that state; and with dtente, which means a working relationship with that state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This trial promoted an expansion of exchanges between the two organizations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Promoted the expansion and development of teacher training programs deducting that teaching was more important to society than lawyers or doctors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When he finished his mandate in 1868 he was elected national senator, and from his seat he promoted the expansion and population of the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rapid expansion of fish farms has allowed consumption of fish to increase even as the oceans have been depleted. Times, Sunday Times The companies also called for more clarity on how a rapid expansion into rural regions would be funded. Times, Sunday Times Others are in rapid expansion phase and are able to use heavy capital costs to avoid tax. Times, Sunday Times Analysts said that the airline's rapid expansion plans hinge on the region's economic success, with more tourists filling its fleet to capacity. Times, Sunday Times That much was inevitable, given the loan-fuelled blueprint for its rapid expansion. Times, Sunday Times His spokesman said the business case for the runway expansion did not outweigh 'concerns for the local environment in terms of noise and air quality'. Times, Sunday Times The new ramps and runway expansion consisted of asphalt over a crushed shell base. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1988, construction of a runway expansion from 1300to 1800 was started, allowing the airport to be served by jet aircraft in international charter traffic. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Along with the runway expansion, a new service building, with a capacity for 2 million passengers, was opened in 1964. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By this year the airport was still planning the runway expansion, which has since been postponed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Universities will be able to admit about 30,000 more undergraduates from next autumn, in a significant expansion of higher education announced yesterday. Times, Sunday Times The survey suggests that an overwhelming majority of candidates in winnable seats - 83 per cent - support a significant expansion of nuclear power. Times, Sunday Times He confirmed that the government wanted to see a significant expansion of nuclear power in the coming decades. Times, Sunday Times This could, in turn, finance a significant expansion of high-quality, low-emission local housing. Times, Sunday Times I have no doubt that the increase in tuition fees (see article, left) will result in a significant expansion in private and for-profit higher education. Times, Sunday Times Sound suppressors slow the expansion of gases, allowing it to cool and reducing the rate at which it escapes to prevent a shockwave from forming. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 2008 recession exacerbated that scarcity, taking a toll on service industries and slowing the expansion of restaurant franchises and big box retail stores. Christianity Today Reducing the subsidies on student loans, slowing the expansion of higher education places and even raising tuition fees are all on the agenda. Times, Sunday Times The sloog contains a weak acid that slows the expansion of the polymer so that the growth appears to occur over several days. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The resulting rise in the real exchange rate translated into increased imports and slowed the expansion of exports. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Steady expansion in store numbers has pushed up profits 21% a year from 6.1m in 2003 to an annualised 8.8m in 2006. Times, Sunday Times All of this suggests that growth in the second quarter could outpace the steady expansion shown in the first three months of the year. Times, Sunday Times They should also promote 'steady expansion of nuclear power capacity as a main and indispensable element in attaining the group objectives', albeit that six member states demurred. Times, Sunday Times The need to secure troops and revenue led to the steady expansion of the royal court and a formalisation of its procedures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rankings of the schools programs highlight the results of thoughtful and steady expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other reports showed that home prices climbed at the fastest pace in more than seven years and manufacturing was in a sustained expansion. Times, Sunday Times When growth resumed after recession in the early 1990s, the economy achieved 16 years of sustained expansion until the financial crisis hit in 2007. Times, Sunday Times After a period of sustained expansion throughout the 20th century, liberal democracy became the predominant political system in the world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Along with this financial and territorial expansion came a flowering of culture, in particular of painting. Times, Sunday Times Territorial expansion by our ancestors to all five continents was a critical component in establishing globalization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 19th century was an age of large territorial expansion for the city, especially after 1873, when the old fortress was abolished. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This gave investors ideas; they could see a bright future and money to be made in territorial expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also encouraged territorial expansion to gain control over the lucrative trade routes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some neural progenitor markers are capable of tracking cells as they undergo expansion and differentiation from rosettes to neurons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From 1968 to 1971, the airport underwent expansion and modernization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The terminal underwent expansion in 2008 to accommodate exponential growth of low cost travel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1980s, the mall has been undergoing expansions and renovations since its construction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During this period of growth, the school building also underwent expansion through the construction of new buildings and wings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We, too, have seen a vast expansion in the production of both industrial and agricultural commodities. Times, Sunday Times In education, councils have been told to set up a strategic partnership to get building cash, effectively a vast expansion of the experiment. Times, Sunday Times The vast expansion in the possibilities that have been opened up by digital technology has attracted new companies, new writers and new producers. Times,Sunday Times In the meantime, there has been a vast expansion of iron ore supply as investors have poured money into new mines. Times, Sunday Times I mention all this because a government education adviser has just proposed a vast expansion of the state boarding sector. Times, Sunday Times Overaggressive banks poured money they did not have into worldwide expansion. The Sun The company has never recorded a profit as it has invested in worldwide expansion which has boosted its revenue from €74 million in 2010 to €2 billion last year. Times, Sunday Times From 2000 to 2003, he helmed the companys successful creation and growth and provided strategic direction for its worldwide expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In recent years, its worldwide expansion has accelerated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has become a phenomenally successful enterprise in terms of financial growth, brand-name recognition, and worldwide expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 扩张 Japanese: 拡大 |
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