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inorganic

adjective/ˌɪnɔːˈɡænɪk/

B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Achieved through acquisition or merger rather than internal expansion.

Most of the group's revenue gains last year were inorganic, driven almost entirely by three mid-market acquisitions.

Similar: acquisitive

Topic: Strategy in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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