reinforcement
pronunciation
How to pronounce reinforcement in British English:
UK [ˌri:ɪnˈfɔ:smənt]
How to pronounce reinforcement in American English:
US [ˌriɪnˈfɔrsmənt]
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- Noun:
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
Word Origin
- reinforcement (n.)
- c. 1600, "act of reinforcing," from reinforce + -ment. Meaning "an augmentation, that which reinforces" is from 1650s. Related: Reinforcements.
Example
- 1. Reinforcement can be intrinsic , extrinsic or extraneous .
- 2. Intrinsic reinforcement occurs when the act is reinforcing .
- 3. Then used packing tape for reinforcement .
- 4. The mentality of revenge , exaggeration and continual reinforcement has little bearing on male behavior .
- 5. He had asked in public for a reinforcement of 2000 troops ( and more in private ) , but received the promise of only a temporary boost of 700 soldiers , amid resistance from the treasury and the foreign office .