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Reinforcement   /rˌiɪnfˈɔrsmənt/   Listen
Reinforcement

noun
1.
A military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission.  Synonyms: reenforcement, support.
2.
Information that makes more forcible or convincing.  Synonym: reenforcement.
3.
(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it.  Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus.
4.
A device designed to provide additional strength.  Synonym: strengthener.  "He used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook"
5.
An act performed to strengthen approved behavior.  Synonym: reward.






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"Reinforcement" Quotes from Famous Books



... superior in number, and to defend themselves against continuous firing from houses, cellars, woods and thickets, while the impoverished soil yielded a miserable subsistence, and the broken railroads cut off freedom of communication and of reinforcement. ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall

... the dispatch of American naval forces to aid the Allies in the fight against the submarines, which for a few months were to come dangerously near justifying the confidence that had been placed in them. The process of naval reinforcement was slow, and not till 1918 did the American Navy become a really important factor in the anti-submarine campaign; but every destroyer added to the allied forces was of immediate value. The American Treasury was opened for vast credits to the Allies, who by their enormous ...
— Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements • Frank B. Lord and James William Bryan

... would be so opposed to the inclinations of the Indians generally as to bring on a war of some duration, and at the same time render the British garrisons "so uneasy with such a force impending over them, as not only to occasion a considerable reinforcement of their upper posts, but to occasion their fomenting, secretly, at least, the opposition of the Indians." How any official of the government with the report of Antoine Gamelin in his hands, could hope to soften the animosity of the tribes by the taking of half measures, ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce

... what would happen in the Venetian plain, that he had his plan of French reinforcement perfected long in advance, even to the schedule for dispatching troop trains to ...
— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin

... especially good. Light, however, was at a premium. It may have been all out of compliment, to bear testimony to our being "shining lights" ourselves; still, for all that, we should have been glad to forego the politeness, and receive, instead, a reinforcement of lamps. ...
— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough


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