emerging
English
Adjective
emerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)
- Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
- America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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Derived terms
Translations
becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising
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Noun
emerging (plural emergings)
- emergence
- 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
- We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district […]
- 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
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