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outgrowth

[ out-grohth ]

noun

  1. a natural development, product, or result:

    to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.

  2. an additional, supplementary result.
  3. a growing out or forth.
  4. something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.


outgrowth

/ ˈ²¹ÊŠ³Ùˌɡ°ùəʊθ /

noun

  1. a thing growing out of a main body
  2. a development, result, or consequence
  3. the act of growing out
“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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Origin of outgrowth1

First recorded in 1830–40; out- + growth
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“The healthcare system we have now is an accidental outgrowth of efforts to combat post-World War II inflation,†he writes.

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The rise of the meme costume might be seen as an outgrowth of the trends that prevailed before it, except today the primary aspiration is attention.

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The cheers were an outgrowth of the party’s efforts to reclaim the rhetoric of patriotism, couching its mix of economic and reproductive rights promises as a “freedom†agenda.

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The effort to change the town’s name started in 2020 as an outgrowth of meetings among concerned county residents who went on to form the group Citizens for Healing.

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As such, America’s democracy crisis not just about “politics†but an outgrowth/distillation of many other and deeper societal troubles.

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