economic growth

1. 1.

   steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)

   Broadereconomic process

Questions about economic growth

What does economic growth mean?

economic growth means "steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)".

Is economic growth a common word?

economic growth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.