Meaning & use

sevenfold

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seven times as great or as many; having seven parts or divisions.

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The company's profits increased sevenfold over the decade.

The ancient text promised a sevenfold blessing to those who kept the covenant.

A note on using this word

It can function as both an adjective and an adverb, as in 'sales grew sevenfold', without changing form.

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seven timesseptuple

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