twentyfold

[twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-, twen-tee-fohld, twuhn-]

adjective

1. having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.

2. being twenty times as large, great, many, etc.

adverb

1. twenty times in amount or degree.

Word History and Origins

Origin of twentyfold¹

First recorded in 1600–10; twenty + -fold

Example Sentences

The amount of electronic waste flooding into the country has increased twentyfold in the past decade, from around 3,000 tonnes a year before the Chinese ban to 60,000 now, according to environmental group Earth Thailand.

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In the depths of the pandemic, as global supply chains buckled and the cost of shipping a container to China soared nearly twentyfold, Marco Villarreal spied an opportunity.

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And film photography has been on the rise among young people, with film sales increasing twentyfold from 2020 to 2022.

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The study also found wide geographic variation in the use of influenza antivirals -- there was a threefold to twentyfold difference in the rate of antiviral use based on geographic region that was not explained by differences in the incidence of flu, said Antoon.

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But violent incidents at religious gathering places, tracked by the non-profit Faith Based Security Network, have increased more than twentyfold since 1999, with 60 percent of them involving guns.

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