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hyper- +‎ growth

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hypergrowth (uncountable)

  1. Extremely rapid growth
    • 2007 July 30, Bob Tedeschi, “U.S. Merchants Look to the North in Bid to Rejuvenate Slowing Sales”, in New York Times[1]:
      United States-based online merchants are looking for ways to sustain the hypergrowth they experienced in their early years [] .
    • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pragia:
      The jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species.