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fivefold

[ fahyv-fohld ]

adjective

  1. five times as great or as much.
  2. comprising five parts or members.


adverb

  1. in fivefold measure.

fivefold

/ ˈfaɪvˌfəʊld /

adjective

  1. equal to or having five times as many or as much
  2. composed of five parts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adverb

  1. by or up to five times as many or as much
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fivefold1

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

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.

From 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.

Gap year organizations are seeing a fivefold increase in inquiries.

From Ozy

Hong Kong underwent a “third wave” in August, in which total infection numbers increased nearly fivefold.

From Fortune

Though Tesla’s share price declined 6% on Wednesday, it’s still up more than fivefold this year.

From Fortune

Tweets with “Bill Cosby” increased fivefold from the previous day to 103,000.

And one hair broker, TheHairTrader.com, has seen its traffic increase fivefold over the past few months.

The applause, now multiplied fivefold and become deafening, seemed to beat him back against the curtain.

Through a crevice in this wall the water seeped, and when he had gouged out the puttylike blue clay the flow increased fivefold.

The white population of Chicago increased threefold from 1880 to 1900, and the colored population fivefold.

While the membership, doubled under the impulse of the new organization, the increase in the amount of money raised was fivefold.

Since the discovery of the gold mines in California, he says, the travel and trade upon that coast has increased fivefold.

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