centuple

The company's profits centupled after the new product launch.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Hundredfold: "centuple" means being a hundred times as great or as many; multiplied by one hundred.

2. Verb:

   • To multiply by one hundred: "centuple" means to increase something to a hundred times its original amount or number.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • The company reported a centuple increase in profits over the last decade. (A hundredfold rise in earnings.)

• Verb:

  • The new investment strategy aims to centuple the initial capital within five years. (To multiply the starting money by one hundred.)

Advanced Usage

• "to centuple one's efforts": to increase one's work or productivity dramatically.

  • Facing the deadline, the team had to centuple their efforts to complete the project. (They worked much harder, as if multiplying their output a hundredfold.)

• "centuple returns": financial gains that are one hundred times the original investment.

  • The venture capitalist sought centuple returns from the startup. (Expected profits equal to 100 times the amount invested.)

Variants and Related Words

• Centuplicate (verb): a less common synonym meaning to multiply by one hundred.

  • The algorithm can centuplicate the data processing speed. (It increases speed a hundredfold.)

• Centuplication (noun): the act or process of multiplying by one hundred.

  • The centuplication of the population led to severe overcrowding. (The hundredfold increase in inhabitants.)

Synonyms

• Hundredfold: a hundred times as much or as many.
• Multiply by one hundred: to increase by a factor of 100.

Phrasal Verbs

None common.

Related Idioms

None common.