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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesaugmentation
Pronunciation / Transliteration: augmentation
"Cette mesure permettra une augmentation des salaires."
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The action or process of making or becoming greater in size, amount, or value.
"The company announced a significant augmentation of its workforce."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin augmentatio(n-), from augmentare 'to increase', from augere 'to increase, make greater'.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Augmentation" is said worldwide
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augmentation
Transliteration: augmentation
"Cette mesure permettra une augmentation des salaires."
Vergrößerung
Transliteration: Vergroesserung
"Die Augmentation des Budgets war dringend erforderlich."
aumento
Transliteration: aumento
"C'è stata un'importante augmentation delle risorse."
aumento
Transliteration: aumento
"El proyecto requiere una augmentación del capital."
aumento
Transliteration: aumento
"Houve uma augmentation na produção da fábrica."
वृद्धि
Transliteration: vriddhi
"सुरक्षा उपायों में augmentation किया गया है।"
增加
Transliteration: zēngjiā
"我们需要对系统进行 augmentation。"
증대
Transliteration: jeungdae
"예산의 augmentation이 승인되었습니다."
増強
Transliteration: zōkyō
"戦力の augmentation が急務である。"
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