growth rate

1. 1.

   the rate of increase in size per unit time

   Synonymsrate of growth

   Broaderrate

   Narrowerisometry

Questions about growth rate

What does growth rate mean?

growth rate means "the rate of increase in size per unit time".

What is another word for growth rate?

Close synonyms include rate of growth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is growth rate a common word?

growth rate 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.