Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of enriching or the state of being enriched.
- noun Something that enriches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of enriching.
- noun Fertilization, as of the soil; a making productive.
- noun Improvement by the abundant supply of what is useful or desirable.
- noun The garnishing of any object with rich ornaments, or with elaborate decorative motives: as, the enrichment of a bookbinding, or of a stole; also, the ornamentation itself: as, ornamented with a brass enrichment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
enriching or somethingenriched - noun the process of making
enriched uranium - noun the
addition ofsugar togrape juice used to makewine ;chaptalization
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth
- noun act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term enrichment has become a catchword in the world of captive animal husbandry in the past few years and for many organizations, enrichment has become a new focus as more and more research reveals how critical enrichment is to the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of captive animals.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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The term enrichment has become a catchword in the world of captive animal husbandry in the past few years and for many organizations, enrichment has become a new focus as more and more research reveals how critical enrichment is to the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of captive animals.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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The word "enrichment" has positive connotations that quite frankly are not supported by science.
Andrew Gunther: Rotten Eggs: HSUS and United Egg Producers Enter Agreement That Bird Cages Are Here to Stay Andrew Gunther 2011
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The word "enrichment" has positive connotations that quite frankly are not supported by science.
Andrew Gunther: Rotten Eggs: HSUS and United Egg Producers Enter Agreement That Bird Cages Are Here to Stay Andrew Gunther 2011
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ISIS argues that among the biggest threats posed by Pyongyang's perceived advancement in uranium-enrichment is the North's historical willingness to export its nuclear technologies.
U.S. Expects to Restart Bilateral Talks With Pyongyang by January Jay Solomon 2010
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The new site of uranium enrichment is nothing but a diversion from the real site, simultaneously all this new Iran-US approach is another diversion from the fragile Political situation of the current Government, and the US is helping them by collaborating on such talks.
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The word enrichment has to be clear and to the point without referring to any abstract phrases as peaceful nuclear energy.
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This is a presidency that has been wholly unwilling to restrain the drive toward short-term enrichment for themselves and their cronies in behalf of earth's stressed and imperiled biosphere.
Bush's Surge: An Interpretation that Connects it with the Regime's Deep Darkness 2007
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The cost of uranium enrichment is subsidized by the U.S. government.
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While saying that he wanted to remain open to innovation, Mr. Jones added, "We need to ensure that innovative transactions are not a strategy to drain value away from policyholders only to provide short-term enrichment to shareholders and investment bankers."
NYT > Home Page By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH 2011
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