Fromincrease +-ing(participial suffix).
increasing (notcomparable)
- On theincrease.
steadilyincreasing demand
2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, inThe Guardian[1]:The world’s environmental crises are anincreasing concern in international politics. Deforestation of the Amazon was high on the agenda of this week’s G7 meeting in Biarritz, France. In September, world leaders will gather in New York for a climate action summit.
increasing
- presentparticiple andgerund ofincrease
1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of anincreasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
2013 June 7,Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page19:It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating theincreasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
FromMiddle Englishencresing, equivalent toincrease +-ing(gerund suffix).
increasing (pluralincreasings)
- (knitting) Anincrease.
1864,The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine, page277:Now begin theincreasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.
