Usually means: Increase in size or volume.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. expand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expand: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expand, expand: Wordnik
  7. expand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expand: Wiktionary
  9. expand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expand: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Expand, expand: Dictionary.com
  13. expand: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. expand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Expand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Expand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. expand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. expand: Rhymezone
  19. expand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. expand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. expand: Free Dictionary
  22. expand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. expand: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. expand: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. expand: Legal dictionary
  3. expand: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. expand: CCI Computer
  2. Expand: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. expand: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. expand: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expand: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
verb:  (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
verb:  (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
verb:  (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
verb:  (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
verb:  (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
verb:  (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb:  (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.

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