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reinforcement
/ˌɹiɪnˈfoɹsmənt/
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What does reinforcement mean?
noun
- The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- A thing that reinforces.
- Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
More meanings (2)
noun
- The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
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IPA pronunciation
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At the same time, he reckoned himself as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement.
We know as little of Byng, but hear that he sailed with the reinforcement before his successor reached Gibraltar.
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Watson, furious at his late disasters, and mortified with the result of his confident anticipations, had sallied forth from Georgetown with a reinforcement.
Not the teaching as such but the reinforcement of it by the whole regime of which it was an incident made it effective.
The expression by word of mouth should have been enough and have needed no reinforcement through conventional gestures, but the last are spontaneously involuntary accompaniments.