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(OP)
I can't stand it.  It seems like this usage of the word "grow" has grown!

You don't do something to "grow your business".  You do something to "make your business grow".

Anyone else notice this, especially on the television or radio or am I just kooky?

RE: Grow your business

It annoyed me for a while, but I am getting used to it.

I grow tomatoes and flowers.

Buy a dictionary, keep it nearby and USE it. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English is recommended, and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

RE: Grow your business

Yes it does sort of grow on you doesn't it?

RE: Grow your business

I'm with you Eric!

Drives me nuts too.

The first time I heard that phrase was when I was out of the country and talking with someone that English was there second language, so I didn't think much about it. Then I started hearing it a lot here in the U.S. so I decided that I was the only one behind the eight-ball.

You made my day. Thanks

NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas

RE: Grow your business

Here in the UK it would appear that the 'in' phrase for the last few years is something like:

'the company will sustain organic growth'

I've never understood what it means.
Perhaps they (accountants, directors etc) intend to plant the company in the manure they're talking.

RE: Grow your business

gaufridus,

Organic growth is used to imply that the company will be able to increase revenue (hopefully profit as well) through the existing business. This is in contrast to growth through acquisition.

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Matthew Ian Loew


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RE: Grow your business

Water at least once a day and fertilize regularly. Don't forget the 80's maxim and cross pollinate.

RE: Grow your business

"Grow your business" still annoys me but I can't put my finger on why.  For some reason the sense I get is not a metaphorical substitution of "business" for something agricultural, but rather an gramatically "creative" usage of "grow", along the lines of "The mob bosses disappeared the uncooperative businessman."

Hg

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RE: Grow your business

It irritates me because it is another attempt to devise a new catch-phrase that never caught me.

RE: Grow your business

(OP)
It just seems lazy to me.

I think it is technically correct, but sloppy.

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