adj. making the profit as great as possible; "the profit-maximizing price"

adj. tending to increase velocity

adj. marked or produced by accretion

adj. growing by accretion

adj. increasing in amount or degree: "rising prices"

adj. increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'"

adj. increasing in size or area or volume or bulk or range: "an expanding universe"; "our expanding work load"

adj. streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flags aflare in the breeze"

adj. increasing in size or degree or amount; "her growing popularity"; "growing evidence of a world depression"; "a growing city"; "growing businesses"

adj. growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories; "the Russian Empire was a typical incorporative state"

adj. increasing in length: "the lengthening days of February"

adj. making as great as possible

adj. tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree; "the multiplicative tendency of proportional representation"

adj. increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"