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Banking has a concentrating effect on the economy, and the bigger the bank the more concentrating it is.

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Quick take

A township in Jennings County, Indiana, United States, named after Samuel Bigger.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bigger gathered in one view.

noun

A township in Jennings County, Indiana, United States, named after Samuel Bigger.

noun

A surname.

verb

(nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bigger.

noun

A township in Jennings County, Indiana, United States, named after Samuel Bigger.

noun

A surname.

verb

(nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.

Example sentences

Banking has a concentrating effect on the economy, and the bigger the bank the more concentrating it is.

At least in the bigger cities for traffic shaping they measure the traffic at every lane of every intersection.

Those planted in cities that are bigger and richer, but have the wrong sort of culture, don't do as well.

If you use an image that is 2x bigger than defined in the img tag it will play nice on HiDPI.

He sounds personally upset that the bigger VCs preferred China and India to Mexico.

This creates fragmentation and a jungle of compile-to-JavaScript languages order of magnitude bigger than what we've got now.

When competition becomes too intense in those markets, the bigger players will start eating the smaller players, and eventually the market consolidates.

Inequality of opportunity is a much bigger problem than inequality of, say, income.

But a bigger question than that is what market are you talking about?

We focus on the bigger picture, too: social innovation is woven into the DNA of our company, and for every pair of glasses purchased, a pair is distributed to someone in need.

And if the author wants to complain about games feeling like work, precise controller-use, meaningless deaths, or blind alleys are surely much bigger examples of that.

Java has wider margins and a bigger font.

Quote examples

I would add one more item at the bottom, bigger than anything else, "Deciding What to Write"

In this world, every object is a finite bit array, plus some annotated interpretation ("a type"), which is just notation for a bigger finite array.

All this other expensive overhead is gone." But instead the executives choose to invest the company's would-be profits (and a little more) back into the company, in hopes that they will be even bigger later on.

But instead it chooses to invest its would-be profits (and a little more) back into the company, in hopes that they will be even bigger later on." Indeed their only real option at this point is likely to start slashing cost and hope it doesn't impact revenue.