burgeoning
adjective
bur·geon·ing
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Definition of burgeoning
: growing, expanding, or developing rapidly
a burgeoning market/industry a burgeoning city Colorado's burgeoning marijuana industry had struggled under its own astonishing success since legal recreational sales began Jan. 1.— David Migoya
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This was the era when artists started to forsake aristocratic and institutional patronage—bucking the bias of the annual Salon while hungering for inclusion in it—in favor of support from a burgeoning middle class. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "Renoir’s Problem Nudes," 19 Aug. 2019 Formal incorporation into Japan came in 1905, when the Japanese Cabinet, seeing a burgeoning business in sea lions, made the islands part of Shimane prefecture to license and tax the hunt. — Brad Lendon, CNN, "Why Russia and China are wading into a centuries' old dispute over a tiny island cluster," 26 July 2019 Cornell is hardly the only school to take notice of the burgeoning field. — Michelle Cheng, Quartz at Work, "Major universities are starting to offer cannabis degree programs," 1 Aug. 2019 Though the Indian economy is growing fast, it is widely perceived as failing to provide adequate employment to a burgeoning number of young people who are ready to join the workforce. — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, "Job creation in India’s renewable energy industry more than halved last fiscal," 15 July 2019 Among the projects and investments the Falics have in the West Bank is the Psagot winery, an award-winning vintner that is also a centerpiece of the burgeoning settler tourism industry. — Washington Post, "US duty free owners give millions to Israeli settlements," 1 July 2019 Aubameyang gave up a chance for a hat-trick in the Gunners' 3-0 win over Stoke at the start of April in order to allow Lacazette take the penalty and the pair seem to be forming a burgeoning relationship on the pitch. — SI.com, "Aubameyang Calls Wenger Criticism 'Unfair' as He Revels in Strike Partnership With 'Rival' Lacazette," 11 Apr. 2018 Plus, juvenile crabs, a burgeoning group that led the winter survey, won’t be market-ready until later this season, or even next season. — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, "Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population is doing well heading into the Fourth of July, report says," 3 July 2019 In Atlanta, her role in the burgeoning civil rights movement grew. — Jason Miller, The Conversation, "The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr. she was thought of as his ‘other wife’," 24 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'burgeoning.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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