Usually means: Growth or rise in quantity, intensity.
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  1. increases: Merriam-Webster
  2. increases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. increases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Increases: Wordnik
  5. increases: Wiktionary
  6. increases: Dictionary.com
  7. increases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. increases: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. increases: Wordnik
  10. increases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. increases: Legal dictionary

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  1. increases: Idioms

(Note: See increase as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Increase)

verb:  (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
verb:  (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
verb:  To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
verb:  (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
noun:  An amount by which a quantity is increased.
noun:  For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
noun:  Offspring, progeny
noun:  (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
noun:  (historical, used by Puritans) A male given name.
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