burgeoning

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

|Updated on: 29 May 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

All around the country, from Virginia to Alaska and all points in between, new spaceports are popping up to support the burgeoning private space industry.

— joe pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "Will Uncle Sam Shower Some Love on Spaceports?," 7 May 2018
But the opaque performance record of equity crowdfunding platforms in the U.K., amid feverish competition to host deals, suggests investors should approach the burgeoning U.S. industry with caution.

— stephen wilmot, WSJ, "Slippery Way to Grab a Slice of the Next Google," 1 May 2018
For Kylie Jenner, an insecurity with her lips inspired a burgeoning cosmetics empire, specifically her best-selling Lip Kit products.

— karen mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, "Kylie Jenner Admits She Was 'Insecure About My Lips' & Reveals Whether She'd Get Plastic Surgery," 1 May 2018
Famous for protesting the ways of Wall Street, many are drawn to Uber, eBay, freelancing and other parts of a burgeoning gig economy that lets them earn a living without answering to The Man.

— rick montgomery, chicagotribune.com, "What companies want: millennials. What they’re offering: massages, student loan help," 1 May 2018
Famous for protesting the ways of Wall Street, many are drawn to Uber, eBay, freelancing and other parts of a burgeoning gig economy that lets them earn a living without answering to The Man.

— rick montgomery, kansascity, "What companies want: millennials. What they're offering: massages, student loan help | The Kansas City Star," 27 Apr. 2018
Well, apparently, Trump forgot to break the news to the burgeoning medical marijuana industry and businessmen like Joseph Friedman, the chief operations officer for PDI Medical, a dispensary in the northwest suburbs.

— ben joravsky, Chicago Reader, "News / Politics / Weed Week Trump’s war on medical marijuana putting Illinois dispensaries at 'risk'," 24 Apr. 2018
Yet the tests have become a cash cow for a burgeoning testing industry, and critics charge that unneeded and often expensive ones are sometimes ordered for profit rather than patient care.

— fred schulte, Washington Post, "‘Bill Of The Month’: A College Student’s $17,850 Drug Test," 16 Feb. 2018
The burgeoning field of telehealth has the potential to solve some of the world’s most significant health care challenges: difficulty accessing care, rising costs, and poor outcomes.

— joseph m. devivo, STAT, "3 things bottlenecking telehealth innovation and how to fix them," 4 May 2018

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