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buildup
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | aggrandization, amplification, augment, augmentation, boost, buildup, enlargement, escalation, growth, multiplication, raise, rise, swell, upsurge, upswing, upturn |
| Main Entry: | unfolding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development |
| Synonyms: | adding to, addition, adulthood, advance, advancement, advancing, augmentation, augmenting, boost, buildup, developing, elaborating, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, evolving, expansion, flowering, growth, hike, improvement, increase, increasing, making progress, maturation, maturing, maturity, ongoing, perfecting, progress, progression, reinforcement, reinforcing, ripening, spread*, spreading, unraveling, upgrowth, upping |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gradual growth, addition |
| Synonyms: | accession, accumulation, augmentation, build-up, increase, increment, raise, rise |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deduction, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregation, amassment, augmentation, build-up, chunk, collecting, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, gob, growth, heap, hoarding, hunk, increase, inflation, intensification, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, trove, up, upping |
| Antonyms: | dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, scattering |
| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, readiness |
| Synonyms: | alertness, anticipation, arrangement, background, base, basis, build-up, construction, dry run, education, establishment, evolution, expectation, fitting, foresight, formation, foundation, gestation, getting ready, groundwork, homework, incubation, lead time, making ready, manufacture, measure, plan, precaution, preparedness, preparing, provision, putting in order, qualification, readying, rehearsal, rundown, safeguard, schoolwork, study, substructure, training, tryout, workout |
| Antonyms: | unreadiness |
| Main Entry: | publicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promotion of something, someone |
| Synonyms: | PR, advertising, announcement, announcing, attention, ballyhoo, big noise, billing, blurb, boost*, broadcasting, build-up, clout*, commercial, currency, distribution, fame, handout, hoopla*, hype*, ink, limelight, noise*, notoriety, pitch, plug*, press, press-agentry, promo, promulgation, propaganda, public notice, public relations, puff, puffery, pushing, release, report, réclame, scratch*, spotlight*, spread, write-up |
| Antonyms: | secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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acquired, acquiring, acquisitive, advantageous, advectitious, gainful, lucrative, lucriferous, paying, proficuous, profitable, remunerative, tontine
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| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | preparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afloat, afoot, annonary, armed at all points, armed to the teeth, at harness, at one's post, booted and spurred, brewing, brooding, cut and dried, elaborate, forthcoming, fossorial, graith, handy, hatching, highly wrought, in agitation, in arms, in battle array, in best bib and tucker, in course of preparation, in embryo, in full feather, in gear, in hand, in harness, in practice, in preparation, in readiness, in reserve, in saddle, in store for, in training, in war, in working order, inchoate, labored, made to one's hand, mature, mellow, on foot, on the alert, on the anvil, on the stocks, on the table, practiced, precautionary, preliminary, preparative, preparatory, prepared, preparing, provident, provisional, ready, ready, ready to one's hand, smelling of the lamp, snug, sword in hand, under consideration, under revision, up in arms, worked up
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