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fourfold

[ fawr-fohld, fohr- ]

adjective

  1. comprising four parts or members.
  2. four times as great or as much.


adverb

  1. in fourfold measure.

fourfold

/ ˈfɔːˌfəʊld /

adjective

  1. equal to or having four times as many or as much
  2. composed of four parts


adverb

  1. by or up to four times as many or as much

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fourfold1

before 1000; Middle English foure fald, Old English feowerfealdum. See four, -fold

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Example Sentences

The number of new cases reported daily has increased fourfold over the last month, prompting the New York Times to comment that “the national outlook is worsening quickly.”

Years after California voted to lower property taxes, funding had plummeted for all public schools, and tuition for state colleges and universities had risen fourfold.

From Time

The cotton crop produced by the enslaved in Mississippi multiplied more than fourfold over the course of just eight years.

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Since 2017, when Duo Tongguang was incorporated, TIZA’s revenue has increased almost fourfold, to more than half a billion dollars in 2019.

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They are now up about 245% in 2020 after previously climbing more than fourfold.

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Her basic argument, though it takes some work to decipher, is fourfold.

Revenues rose fourfold from $28.2 million in 2010 to $106.3 million in 2011, then rose three-fold to $316.9 million in 2012.

The stock has risen more than fourfold since its low of July 2011 and has nearly tripled so far in 2012.

This little unexpected communication increased that dread fourfold.

There are two serious difficulties with this fourfold classification (isolating, prefixing, suffixing, symbolic).

The greatest relative growth was in 1918, when the membership grew fourfold.

Even the grave and mighty Vishnoo delights in the lotus, which is one of the four emblems he holds in his fourfold arms.

Gibraltar in mid-ocean might have fourfold its present power, yet would be valueless in a military sense.

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