reinforcement

Other forms of reinforcement

plural

reinforcements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reinforcement

What does reinforcement mean?

reinforcement means "a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reinforcement?

reinforcement has 4 syllables: rein-for-ce-ment. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹsmənt/.

What is another word for reinforcement?

Close synonyms include support, reenforcement, reenforcement, reinforcing stimulus, reinforcer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reinforcement a common word?

reinforcement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reinforcement?

1 word rhymes with reinforcement. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.