Usually means: Strengthening behavior using consequences, rewards.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. reinforcement: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reinforcement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reinforcement: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reinforcement: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reinforcement: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reinforcement, reinforcement: Wordnik
  7. reinforcement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reinforcement: Wiktionary
  9. reinforcement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reinforcement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reinforcement: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reinforcement: Dictionary.com
  13. reinforcement: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reinforcement (disambiguation), Reinforcement (psychology), Reinforcement (speciation), Reinforcement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reinforcement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reinforcement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reinforcement: Rhymezone
  18. Reinforcement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reinforcement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reinforcement: Free Dictionary
  21. reinforcement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reinforcement: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Reinforcement (psychology), reinforcement: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reinforcement (psychology), reinforcement: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. Reinforcement (psychology), reinforcement: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reinforcement: Evolution Glossary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  4. Reinforcement: Fiberglass Glossary
  5. REINFORCEMENT: Industry Terms for Fiberglass

(Note: See reinforcements as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
noun:  (countable) A thing that reinforces.
noun:  (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
noun:  (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
noun:  A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.

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