The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word INCREASE
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More clues leading to the result INCREASE
- Where striker stands for more pay?
- Where batter needs to stand to rise
- Get boost from facing the batting where the batsman stands
- Extension incorporated front of roof with ease
- Rise at home and pack in bags last of gear
- Appreciate fashionable pleat
- . As a precaution, taking note of growth
- Profit from popular event split by Greer evenly
- Entering cover, soldiers step up
- Go up and face bowler here
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What does INCREASE mean?
INCREASE noun- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger
- Offspring, progeny
- The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.
- To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.