enrichment

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ.mənt/

noun

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noun
The act of improving something by adding value or interest.
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noun
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The addition of sugar to grape juice used to make wine; chaptalization.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The practice of enrichment to address these problems started in zoos and later spread to more intensively managed captive settings, such as farming and animal laboratories.

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That stockpile of 60% Uranium, if enriched to 90%, which is a relatively easy step, is enough for about nine bombs, according to experts. Just before the war started, Iran announced that it had built another new secret facility for enrichment that was due to come on stream soon.
2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC
In an interview with CBS broadcast Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, said that his country’s uranium enrichment will “never stop” because Iran has an “inalienable right” to do so for “peaceful nuclear activity.”
2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN
The practice of enrichment to address these problems started in zoos and later spread to more intensively managed captive settings, such as farming and animal laboratories.
2009, Marc Bekoff, Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, 2nd Edition, page 208

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From enrich + -ment.