"expanded meaning" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the sense that is created when a word or phrase is used in a more creative or figurative way. For example, you might say, "The author uses an expanded meaning of the word 'safe' to refer to both physical and emotional security."
Furthermore, existing pipelines connecting the two countries can be upgraded and expanded, meaning that Iran could be linked to Europe's pipeline infrastructure.
The reliability metrics defined here take on an expanded meaning in which the underlying concept of failure in traditional reliability analysis is replaced by the notion of intervention.
The handwritten telegrams that accompany his Disasters of War (typically, "I was there. This is what I saw") are both integral to the prints and a terse model of expanded meaning.
How's it apply to you and your husband?" "Well," she begins earnestly, "with us, it has a slightly expanded meaning.
During prolonged, vigorous exercise, the blood vessels in your legs expand, meaning that more blood moves through them.
"Space-time itself can expand, meaning that matter at different locations in space-time will be moving apart faster than the speed of light," Percival explains.
Already, the federal budget deficit is expanding, meaning that the bill for a war would lead either to more red ink or to cutbacks in domestic programs.
With the retail outlook bleak, many stores are more apt this year to scale back or close than expand, meaning not only will new space be hard to fill, but there may also be new vacancies in existing space as well, real estate developers said.
The pun expands meaning and possibility.
While Welsh-medium education, driven by parental demand, has continued to expand (meaning that almost a quarter of Welsh pupils are now functionally bilingual – a tremendous achievement), numbers taking a GCSE in MFL have declined from 55% of the cohort in 1995 to 22% in 2013.
Again, Myers criticizes McCarthy for repeating a word when a pretty variation would be out of sync with the rough texture of the story; and then he criticizes McCarthy and Auster for expanding meaning when brevity would be a brake on the little fugues of sense.
