emerging

emerging

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /iˈmɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/

Adjective

emerging (comparative more emerging, superlative most emerging)

1. Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

     America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Derived terms

• emerging market

Translations

becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising

Catalan: emergent Chinese: Mandarin: 新出現／新出现 (xīn chūxiàn), 新興／新兴 (zh) (xīnxīng) Dutch: (naar) boven komen, naar buiten komen, zich vertonen, zich voordoen, blijken (nl) Finnish: nouseva (fi), kasvava (fi), nuori (fi), orastava (fi) French: émergent (fr) German: entstehend (de) Italian: emergente (it) Japanese: 発展途上の (はってんとじょうの, hatten tojō no), 新興の (ja) (しんこうの, shinkō no) Russian: развива́ющийся (ru) (razvivájuščijsja) (developing), возника́ющий (ru) (voznikájuščij), восходя́щий (ru) (vosxodjáščij), расту́щий (ru) (rastúščij) Spanish: emergente

Verb

emerging

1. present participle of emerge

Noun

emerging (plural emergings)

1. emergence
   • 1857, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection

     We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district […]