plus

CEFRB1

/ˈplʌs/

preposition · noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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But the pluses far outweigh the criticisms.
2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 57
Look at Trife. He's got two felonies. That means he's finished in society. But he can rap. His two felonies, in rap, man, that's a plus.
2000 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, quoting Dog, “Guarding the Borders Of the Hip-Hop Nation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2023
When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021
Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend upon plussing to constantly make everyone better.
1998, Nate Booth, Strategies for Fast-Changing Times, →ISBN, page 91
Keep fooling around with it, improving it, and making it better. You know you have a unique factor when someone steals it. So keep the unique factor unique by constantly plussing it.
2007, Howard Hendricks, Color Outside the Lines, →ISBN, page 123

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Borrowed from Latin plūs (“more”).