reinforcement
The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforcedThe act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
» We need to give students positive reinforcement.
Meaning
5 senses(uncountable)The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
Verstärkung
укрепле́ниеukreplénije, усиле́ниеusilénije
(countable)A thing that reinforces.
There's a website that can be a good learning reinforcement.
Verstärkung
(countable, in the plural, uncountable)Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
Send in the reinforcements!
Verstärkung
подкрепле́ниеpodkreplénije, пополне́ниеpopolnénije
(uncountable)The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
Verstärkung
(countable, uncountable)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.
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
- a device designed to provide additional strength
Examples
21 sentencesWe need to give students positive reinforcement.
Our reinforcements are here.
Our reinforcements will soon arrive.
deUnsere Verstärkung wird bald eintreffen.
I brought reinforcements.
ruЯ привел подкрепление.
Call for reinforcements.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Forms
plural: reinforcementsSynonyms
6 synonyms- information that makes more forcible or convincing:reenforcement
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission:supportreenforcement
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior:reward
- a device designed to provide additional strength:strengthener
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it:reinforcing stimulusreinforcer
Word family
16 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable