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\begin{document}$$\mathbb {Z}^n$$\end{document}. In this paper, we systematically study the growth order of meromorphic solutions to the functional equations of the form: ∑μ∈Iαμ(z)∏j=1nf(pj(z))μj∑ν∈Jβν(z)∏j=1nf(pj(z))νj=R(z,f(p0)).\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\sum _{\mu \in I}\alpha _{\mu }(z)\left( \prod _{j=1}^nf( p_{j}(z))^{\mu _j}\right) }{\sum _{\nu \in J}\beta _{\nu }(z)\left( \prod _{j=1}^nf( p_{j}(z))^{\nu _j}\right) }=R(z, f(p_{0})). \end{aligned}$$\end{document}We not only obtain estimates of the growth order of its meromorphic solutions in all possible cases, but also give examples to show these estimates are the best possible.