zoom

zoom
[[t]zu͟ːm[/t]]
zooms, zooming, zoomed
1) VERB If you zoom somewhere, you go there very quickly. [INFORMAL]

[V prep/adv] We zoomed through the gallery...

[V prep/adv] A police car zoomed by very close to them.

Syn:
2) VERB If prices or sales zoom, they increase greatly in a very short time.

The economy shrank and inflation zoomed...

Profits zoomed from nil in 1981 to about 16 million last year.

Syn:
3) N-COUNT A zoom is the same as a zoom lens.
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