The expansion is aging.
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Aging
//ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ//
Synonyms for "aging" (20 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
80 translations across 49 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- plakje noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Arabic
2 entries- شَيْخُوخَة noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- هَرَم noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- köhnəlmə noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- qocalma noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Belarusian
1 entries- старэ́нне noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Bulgarian
2 entries- застаряващ adj (becoming elderly)
- старе́ене noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Catalan
2 entries- envellidor adj (becoming elderly)
- envelliment noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 老化 noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Czech
1 entries- stárnutí noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Danish
2 entries- aldring noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- ældning noun (the deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is)
Dutch
1 entries- veroudering noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Estonian
1 entries- vananemine noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Finnish
4 entries- ikääntyvä adj (becoming elderly)
- vanheneva adj (becoming elderly)
- ikääntyminen noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- vanheneminen noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
French
3 entries- vieillissant adj (becoming elderly)
- sénescence noun (senescence)
- vieillissement noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Galician
1 entries- envellecemento noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Georgian
3 entries- ასაკის მატება noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- დაბერება noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- მომწიფება noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
German
3 entries- alternd adj (becoming elderly)
- Altern noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- Alterung noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִזְדַּקְּנוּת noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Hindi
1 entries- आयुवृद्धि noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Hungarian
4 entries- korosodó adj (becoming elderly)
- öregedő adj (becoming elderly)
- idősödés noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- öregedés noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Indonesian
1 entries- penuaan noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Italian
1 entries- invecchiamento noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Japanese
1 entries- 老化 noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Kazakh
1 entries- қартаю noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Korean
2 entries- 노화 noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- 로화 noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- картаюу noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Latvian
1 entries- novecošana noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Lithuanian
1 entries- senavimas noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Macedonian
1 entries- стареење noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Malay
1 entries- penuaan noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- uɗuhazi noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- aldrende adj (becoming elderly)
- aldring noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- aldrande adj (becoming elderly)
Persian
3 entries- سالخوردگی noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- پیرش noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- پیری noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Polish
1 entries- starzenie się noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Portuguese
2 entries- envelhecimento noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- envelhecimento noun (the deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is)
Romanian
2 entries- îmbătrânire adj (becoming elderly)
- îmbătrânire noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Russian
2 entries- старе́ющий adj (becoming elderly)
- старе́ние noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- stȁrēnje noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- ста̏ре̄ње noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Slovak
1 entries- starnutie noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Slovene
1 entries- staranje noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Spanish
3 entries- envejecedor adj (becoming elderly)
- senescente adj (becoming elderly)
- envejecimiento noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Swedish
1 entries- åldrande noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Tajik
3 entries- кӯхнашавӣ noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- пиршавӣ noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- солхурдаги noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Thai
1 entries- การสูงวัย noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Turkish
1 entries- yaşlanma noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ста́ріння noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
- старі́ння noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Uzbek
1 entries- qarish noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự lão hoá noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Volapük
1 entries- bäldikam noun (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.
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Our chief concern should be the aging of society.
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It was very far-sighted for that company to change its policy to accommodate the decrease in numbers of children and the aging of society.
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