gazelle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small, slender, swift antelope native to Africa or Asia

   The gazelle bounded across the dry plain ahead of the herd.

2. 2
   noun

   business: a young company that grows rapidly over several consecutive years

   The software firm became a gazelle after doubling its revenue each year.

Borrowed through French gazelle from Arabic ghazal, the name of the animal. The business sense compares a rapidly growing, agile company to the swift and graceful antelope.

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