Definition of quadruple
: to become four times as great or as numerous
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Examples of quadruple in a Sentence
The value of the stock has quadrupled in the past year.
The town's population has quadrupled in the past 50 years.
The company has quadrupled the number of its employees.
Recent Examples of quadruple from the Web
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That’s a far cry from 2017, when its shares more than doubled, net income quadrupled and executives talked up their prospects of getting into lucrative smartphone screens.
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Filler injections are up 99% since 2000 and Botox has quadrupled in popularity.
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According to the National Practitioner Data Bank, adverse actions by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) against physicians quadrupled from 88 to 371 cases from 2011 to 2014.
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Last year, 1,200 people died of a drug overdose in Philadelphia, a number that's quadrupled in the past five years.
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The gun business has also exploded under Gov. Rick Scott, quadrupling since 2009 to 691 manufacturers across the state.
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Research firm Brightfield Group last year forecast the global medical cannabis market would quadruple to $31.4 billion by 2021.
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The company has quadrupled its revenue and doubled its staff over the past 12 years or so, Tamasi said, and is always in need of workers.
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The same thing is happening to University City’s rental lab space, where some rents are quadrupling.
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Origin and Etymology of quadruple
Middle English (Scots), from Latin quadruplare, from quadruplus
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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Recent Examples of quadruple from the Web
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Tim Duncan almost goes quadruple-double As one might imagine, Tim Duncan’s legendary career is littered with spectacular Finals moments.
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My inner goddess becomes the first person to execute a quadruple axel at the Winter Olympics.
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That's significantly more than the $860,000 total that former mayor Ed Murray cited in proposing the levy, and quadruple comparable national averages, the paper reported.
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In fact, taxes have the potential to double or even quadruple.
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Having conquered that challenge, Chen is preparing to take on another that's equally monumental and involves much more than reeling off an array of quadruple jumps.
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About one month ago, were fatally shot in a quadruple shooting that also wounded a toddler at the same apartment complex.
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But a quadruple whammy of overfishing, sea lamprey predation, alewife invasion and habitat degradation caused stocks of the lake's top native predator to plummet.
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Massey was one of two men killed Wednesday in a quadruple shooting that also wounded a woman and a toddler.
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Definition of quadruple
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: having four units or members
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: being four times as great or as many
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: marked by four beats per measure
- quadruple meter
Examples of quadruple in a Sentence
She ordered a quadruple espresso.
Recent Examples of quadruple from the Web
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Last year, in pursuit of his second PGA Championship, Day made quadruple bogey at the 18th to close out his third round and kill any hope of another major victory.
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According to Deadline, which broke the story this morning, new evidence in the 1959 Clutter family killings, the quadruple murder in Kansas which serves as the foundation for Capote's bestseller, has promoted a miniseries to reexamine the crime.
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Brandan Marrocco, a quadruple amputee veteran of the Iraq War, received a double arm transplant at Johns Hopkins about five years ago.
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Big-market franchises with quadruple the Rays’ revenue joined the analytics revolution in force, narrowing the gap between the rich and the smart to the point that the divide no longer exists.
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The massive operation at Southeastern Provision in Bean Station, Tennessee, came months after Trump administration officials vowed to at least quadruple work site immigration crackdowns.
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Robinson also rejected the idea that confusion is a key reason that his party now represents more than a half-million Californians — almost quadruple the next closest group in size, the state's Libertarian Party.
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In 2011, scientists snapped the first recorded image of a quadruple rainbow near Bremerhaven, Germany.
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The Gaza Strip is a small area of occupied Palestine, known as the largest open-air prison in the world, with over two million Palestinians on an area roughly double the size of Washington, D.C. with almost quadruple the population.
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First Known Use of quadruple
1557
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QUADRUPLE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of quadruple for English Language Learners
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: to become four times bigger in value or number
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: to cause (something) to become four times bigger
quadruple
Definition of quadruple for English Language Learners
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: four times bigger in size or amount
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: having four parts or including four people or things
QUADRUPLE Defined for Kids
Definition of quadruple for Students
quadrupled;
quadrupling
: to make or become four times as great or as many
Definition of quadruple for Students
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: having four units or parts
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: being four times as great or as many
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