Definition of "burgeoning" []

• Present participle of burgeon. (verb)
• The act of budding or sprouting (noun)
• A bud or branch (noun)
• A new growth or expansion of something (noun)
• That buds, grows or expands; developing (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The white-turbaned Shiite cleric, who has held several senior government positions since the 1979 Islamic revolution, said in an interview Tuesday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, along with the clerics and Revolutionary Guard commanders who support him, will be defeated by what he describes as a burgeoning movement of ordinary people, ayatollahs and lawmakers."
• "The transaction will make fresh capital available to CAA to make acquisitions and expand its business, especially in burgeoning areas like sports and its overseas operations."
• "But what concerns me most is the what you describe as a burgeoning bureaucracy around citizen focus."