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failing to or unlikely to grow; showing a lack of progress or development; restricting or prohibiting growth or expansion; policy or practice of curtailing growth, expansion, or development

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  • Adjective : a no-growth industry. ,a no-growth policy; no-growth rulings
  • Noun : After expanding too rapidly, the city is now in favor of no-growth
  • And the other is looking at it in terms of what is called a no-growth syndrome, a perpetuation of the status quo.
  • Working for a no-growth company is simply not fun.
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