growth period
Time of expansion
A growth period is a span of time during which something develops or expands.
In biology, it refers to the phase when an organism increases in size or matures: The plant's growth period extends from spring through early summer.
In economics, it describes intervals of expanding activity: The postwar growth period transformed the middle class.
The term applies broadly to any developmental phase—a child's growth period, a company's growth period, a movement's growth period.
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- formative yearsChildhood and adolescence
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- pubertySexual development stage
coming of age · sprouting · budding · expansion · flourishing · bloom · seedling · childhood · transition · surge · spurt · cultivation · nurturing · fertile · ripening · emerging · formative · juvenile
- growthincrease, increasing, expansion, expand, expanding
- organizational changemerger, acquisition, restructuring, reorganization, expansion
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
growth perioddecline
Decrease or refuse
contraction · recession · shrinkage · regression · downturn
growth perioddormancy
Suspended biological activity
hibernation · quiescence · latency · latent period · fallow period
growth periodstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
plateau · standstill · dormancy · equilibrium · stasis
growth, period, grow, grows, grown, growing, grower, growers, outgrow