burgeoning

adjective bur·geon·ing \ ˈbər-jə-niŋ \

Updated on: 18 Apr 2018

Definition of burgeoning

: growing, expanding, or developing rapidly

a burgeoning market/industry

a burgeoning city

Colorado's burgeoning marijuana industry had struggled under its own astonishing success since legal recreational sales began Jan. 1.
—David Migoya

Recent Examples of burgeoning from the Web

One big step forward might be scholarship in the burgeoning field of digital humanities.

— josh macht, BostonGlobe.com, "Can tech save the humanities?," 6 Apr. 2018
After many successfulyears at Martin Marietta, Warrenstarted OpCom, an independent company in the burgeoning field of lasers, later merging his company with International Laser Systems.

— orlando sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Deaths in Central Florida: 4/5," 5 Apr. 2018
San Antonio is a main computer security hub outside of the Washington, D.C. region, home to the 24th Air Force, part of the U.S. Cyber Command, a National Security Agency center and a burgeoning cybersecurity industry.

— bill lambrecht, San Antonio Express-News, "S.A. congressman in vulnerable seat increases his focus on cyber security and ‘artificial intelligence’," 1 Apr. 2018
People who wanted to order from the burgeoning catalog business had very limited options, Kielbowicz told me.

— alana semuels, The Atlantic, "Trump’s Complaints About Amazon Have a Historical Precedent," 29 Mar. 2018
However, increasingly, through movies and television shows, the 1980s are being rewritten in real time, erasing the burgeoning diversity of the time and replacing it with an unshakable white gaze.

— jason johnson, The Root, "Ready Player One and the Unbearable Whiteness of ’80s Nostalgia," 30 Mar. 2018
The benefits of fascial therapy, a type of dynamic stretching that targets chronically tight muscles, are still being debated by the medical community, and the burgeoning field has its skeptics.

— chris colin, Outside Online, "I'm Very Inflexible. So I Got Stretched Out By a Pro.," 23 Mar. 2018
Ramsey slowly began implementing his burgeoning philosophy, to startling effect.

— SI.com, "World Cup Countdown: 13 Weeks to Go - The Meticulous Sir Alf Ramsey, England's Greatest Manager," 23 Mar. 2018
Calorie restriction is one of the least ridiculous strategies in the burgeoning field of longevity science.

— megan molteni, WIRED, "Will Cutting Calories Make You Live Longer?," 22 Mar. 2018

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