tenfold

adjective ten·fold \ ˈten-ˌfōld , -ˈfōld \

Updated on: 21 Mar 2018

1 : being 10 times as great or as many

2 : having 10 units or members

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tenfold

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a tenfold increase in sales

Recent Examples of tenfold from the Web

Last year, a record amount of cargo went through there, according to the Russian Ministry of Transport, and Moscow expects a tenfold increase in cargo on the route by 2025.

— chicagotribune.com, "Putin, Xi are dreaming of a Polar Silk Road," 8 Mar. 2018
That's a tenfold increase from November, when MedStar was handling around two flu calls per day.

— matthew martinez, star-telegram, "Texas flu health: MedStar's flu calls up tenfold in 2 months | Fort Worth Star-Telegram," 16 Jan. 2018
Ford has already made a tenfold reduction to the number of orderable combinations in the next-generation Escape from 2,302 to 228.

— kirsten korosec, Fortune, "Ford CEO Jim Hackett's 6-Point Plan to Turn Around the Automaker," 3 Oct. 2017
Thirty two feet long and 37 feet wide, the P-51D was equipped with the amazing Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 engine that gave 1,695 horsepower—a more than tenfold increase in engine power over the S.XIII's Hispano-Suiza engine in just 25 years.

— kyle mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "5 Fighters That Show the History of the U.S. Air Force," 18 Sep. 2017
In addition, the CDC found over five years a tenfold increase in calls about kratom to poison control centers, from 26 in 2010 to 263 in 2015.

— nadia kounang, CNN, "Can the kratom plant help fix the opioid crisis?," 26 Oct. 2017
His peculiar mind-set was on full display during a meeting with the country’s top-ranking national security officials this summer, when Trump reportedly advocated for what would be the equivalent of a tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

— abigail tracy, The Hive, "What Trump Said in the Meeting That Started “Moron”-Gate," 11 Oct. 2017
Since 2013, the number of boot camp schools in the United States has tripled to more than 90, and the number of graduates will reach nearly 23,000 in 2017, a tenfold jump from 2013, according to Course Report, which tracks the industry.

— steve lohr, New York Times, "As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check," 24 Aug. 2017
Winston dismissed the prediction as hyperbole, while Hanson added that Guam probably doesn’t even have the hotels, restaurants or airline capacity to handle a tenfold increase in tourism.

— hugo martin, chicagotribune.com, "Trump might be right that North Korea's threat to Guam will boost tourism," 23 Aug. 2017

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