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Meanings of reenforcement in English
Spanish
refuerzo A military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission.
Usage of reenforcement in English
1
Gen. Butler asked repeatedly for aid and reenforcement from the North.
2
Without further reenforcement Canby will have a moving column of twenty thousand men.
3
For Eldon Parr well knew that his will needed no reenforcement by argument.
4
A reenforcement, therefore, was immediately ordered to the vessels already there.
5
It had-DiegoMendez thought-muchthe aspect of a camp whose general steadily received reenforcement.
6
The British plan of attack embraced a heavy bombardment to demoralize their enemy and prevent reenforcement.
7
But it was a reenforcement rather than a relief, and was confined to the British residency.
8
A reenforcement of less than one platoon has little influence and will be avoided whenever practicable.
9
Our gold reserve has again reached such a stage of diminution as to require its speedy reenforcement.
10
The large center rug holds its own, with some reenforcement in the alcove or perhaps before the hearth.
11
Here was another door with its reenforcement of riveted steel bars and its half dozen bolts and padlocks.
12
Whether this reenforcement is a complete preventive of decrepitude in species, or only a palliative, is more than we can determine.
13
The healing of the sick, the cleansing of the lepers, all resulted from the reenforcement of the vital energies of the sufferers.
14
A reenforcement of the existing provisions for discharging our public debt was mentioned in my address at the opening of the last session.
15
Perhaps he had expected us to follow him; or perhaps he had meant us to delay long enough not to seem like a reenforcement.
16
I have a letter from Mr. Jarvis dated the 19th, before the reenforcement had arrived, and when his company consisted of only 100 men.
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Frequent collocations
Reenforcement through the time