unchecked growth
Spreading without limits
Unchecked growth is expansion that proceeds without restraint or limitation.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of cancer, where cells multiply without the body's normal controls, and in economics or urban planning, where unchecked growth suggests development that ignores sustainability or consequences: Unchecked growth of the suburbs consumed farmland for decades.
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- out of controlUnable to be restrained
- urban sprawlUncontrolled peripheral development
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- metastasisCancer spreading beyond origin
wildfire · runaway · rampant · invasive · tumor · weeds · population explosion · explosion · uncontrolled · spreading · consuming · exponential · cancer · kudzu · epidemic · swarm · bloat · bubble economy
unchecked growthdecline
Decrease or refuse
contraction · shrinkage · reduction · stagnation · regression
unchecked growthsustainable growth
Continuable long-term expansion
planned development · sustainable development · zero growth · organic growth · equilibrium
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