Usually means: Increasing the gradient or slope.
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  1. steepening: Merriam-Webster
  2. steepening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. steepening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Steepening, steepening: Wordnik
  5. steepening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. steepening: Wiktionary
  7. steepening: Dictionary.com
  8. Steepening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Steepening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. steepening: FreeDictionary.org
  11. steepening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The process of becoming steeper.

Similar:
steeping, toughening, raising, hardening, flatting, stewing, crudening, stultification, steaming, alkalinization, more...

Opposite:
flattening, leveling, easing

Phrases:
steepening of the yield curve, more...

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Similar:
steeping, toughening, raising, hardening, flatting, stewing, crudening, stultification, steaming, alkalinization, more...

Opposite:
flattening, leveling, easing

Phrases:
steepening of the yield curve, more...



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