tenfold
adjective
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Definition of tenfold
1 : being 10 times as great or as many
2 : having 10 units or members
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Detaining immigrant children has become a surging industry in the United States that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, according to an Associated Press analysis. — Elliot Spagat, BostonGlobe.com, "Judge weighs tighter oversight of plan to reunite families," 13 July 2018 In 2014, the rover measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it. — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, "NASA's Curiosity rover takes stunning selfie during massive dust storm on Mars," 19 June 2018 Reagan ordered a tenfold increase in tariffs on heavyweight motorcycles, almost all of which were then imported from Japan. — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Reagan used tariffs, not tweets, to protect Harley-Davidson from foreign competition," 28 June 2018 While separate figures aren’t available for border-adjacent lands specifically, Kim estimated there had been a five- to tenfold increase in transactions involving those areas since March. — Victoria Kim, latimes.com, "An unexpected consequence of the thaw between the two Koreas: a budding real estate boom along the DMZ," 20 June 2018 He's seen a tenfold decrease in the fish's population. — CBS News, "Colorado biologists breed rainbow trout to save disease-ravaged population," 19 June 2018 Estimates from the Association of Religion Data Archives estimate there were nearly 28,000 Muslims in Central Florida in 2010, a tenfold increase from a decade before. — Kyle Arnold, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Welcome to Apoultry, Winter Park's free-range chicken farm and slaughterhouse," 17 May 2018 Some 20,000 asylum-seekers walked over the border from the United States last year, a nearly tenfold rise from 2016. — The Economist, "Canada qualifies its welcome to asylum-seekers," 12 May 2018 This year, just six months into the federal fiscal year, the labor department has issued 476 visas, already a tenfold increase from two years earlier. — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, "Essential California: On ICE," 28 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tenfold.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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tenfold
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of tenfold
: ten times as much or as many
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