fivefold

[ fahyv-fohld ]

/ ˈfaɪvˌfoʊld /

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adjective

five times as great or as much.

comprising five parts or members.

adverb

in fivefold measure.

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Origin of fivefold

before 1000; Middle English fiffold,Old English fīffeald.See five, -fold

Words nearby fivefold

Five Civilized Nations, five-eighth, Five-Elements School, five-faced bishop, five-finger, fivefold, five-gaited, five hole, five hundred, five hundred rummy, five Ks

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How to use fivefold in a sentence

The so-called blank-check firms have raised $70 billion in 2020 — a fivefold increase from 2019 — and at least 15 EV companies have been taken public or have listings pending.
Is the boom in electric vehicle stocks almost over?|Verne Kopytoff|December 19, 2020|Fortune
In a 2003 study in Conservation Biology, Keesing and Ostfeld found that the risk of exposure to Lyme increases fivefold when canopied areas cover less than five acres.
The fight to stop the next pandemic starts in the jungles of Borneo|Brian Barth|December 2, 2020|Popular-Science
Gap year organizations are seeing a fivefold increase in inquiries.
2020’s Most In-Demand University: Nature|Charu Kasturi|November 10, 2020|Ozy
Hong Kong underwent a “third wave” in August, in which total infection numbers increased nearly fivefold.
Will the world’s first ‘travel bubble’ actually work?|eamonbarrett|October 17, 2020|Fortune

Though Tesla’s share price declined 6% on Wednesday, it’s still up more than fivefold this year.
Bill Gates–backed EV battery startup to go public using Wall Street’s latest buzzy trick|Aaron Pressman|September 3, 2020|Fortune
Tweets with “Bill Cosby” increased fivefold from the previous day to 103,000.
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And one hair broker, TheHairTrader.com, has seen its traffic increase fivefold over the past few months.
The Tuition Black Market|Kathleen Kingsbury|August 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The applause, now multiplied fivefold and become deafening, seemed to beat him back against the curtain.
The Regent|E. Arnold Bennett
Through a crevice in this wall the water seeped, and when he had gouged out the puttylike blue clay the flow increased fivefold.
The Heritage of the Hills|Arthur P. Hankins
The white population of Chicago increased threefold from 1880 to 1900, and the colored population fivefold.
Races and Immigrants in America|John R. Commons
While the membership, doubled under the impulse of the new organization, the increase in the amount of money raised was fivefold.
Unitarianism in America|George Willis Cooke
Since the discovery of the gold mines in California, he says, the travel and trade upon that coast has increased fivefold.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I|Various

British Dictionary definitions for fivefold

fivefold

/ (ˈfaɪvˌfəʊld) /

adjective

equal to or having five times as many or as much

composed of five parts

adverb

by or up to five times as many or as much

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