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UK [ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒmənt] / US noun [countable/uncountable]
Word forms "encouragement":
singular encouragement plural encouragements
1) words or actions that give someone confidence or hope

He would run up and down, shouting encouragement to the team.

We needed you there to offer words of encouragement.

2) words or actions that help something to happen

financial encouragements to help mothers back to work

the encouragement of reading and literacy


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  • encouragement — Encouragement …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • encouragement — [ ɑ̃kuraʒmɑ̃ ] n. m. • 1564; « courage » fin XIIe; de encourager 1 ♦ Action d encourager. ⇒ incitation. « En matière de signes d encouragement, l amoureux n est pas difficile » (Maurois). Société d encouragement, nom de nombreuses sociétés… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Encouragement — En*cour age*ment, n. [Cf. F. encouragement.] 1. The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity. [1913 Webster] All generous encouragement of arts. Otway. [1913 Webster] 2. That which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • encouragement — ENCOURAGEMENT. s. mas. Ce qui encourage. Les Arts, les Manufactures ont besoin d encouragement. Les louanges sagement placées sont des encouragemens à la vertu, pour la vertu …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • encouragement — 1560s, from ENCOURAGE (Cf. encourage) + MENT (Cf. ment), or from M.Fr. encoragement. As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Encouragement — (fr., spr. Angkuraschmang), Ermuthigung, Antrieb; daher Encouragiren (spr. Angkuraschiren), ermuntern; Encourageant (spr. Angkuraschang), aufmunternd …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • encouragement — index advocacy, approval, auspices, catalyst, contribution (participation), favor (sanction), gu …   Law dictionary

  • encouragement — [n] help, support advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, consoling, easement, enlivening, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration,… …   New thesaurus

  • encouragement — [en kʉr′ijmənt, in kʉr′ijmənt] n. 1. an encouraging or being encouraged 2. something that encourages …   English World dictionary

  • encouragement — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, great, strong ▪ a little, gentle ▪ the slightest ▪ Given the slightest encouragement, he d leave his job …   Collocations dictionary

  • encouragement — n. 1) to give, offer, provide encouragement 2) to find encouragement in 3) warm encouragement * * * [ɪn kʌrɪdʒmənt] offer provide encouragement to find encouragement in to give warm encouragement …   Combinatory dictionary

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