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multiplicatory

multiplicatory adjective: serving to multiply.

Adjective

multiplicatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to multiply.
    • [Strategies] should be based on well-analysed proposals, no matter how simple they may be, provided that they are both feasible and useful, and above all trigger expansion with multiplicatory effects.2002, Berma Klein Goldewijk, Adalid Contreras Baspineiro, Paulo César Carbonari, Dignity and Human Rights: The Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, page 181

Origin of multiplicatory

From multiply + -c- + -atory or multiplicate + -ory, compare multiplication, multiplicative.

Questions about multiplicatory

What does multiplicatory mean?
Multiplicatory means serving to multiply.
What part of speech is multiplicatory?
Multiplicatory is an adjective.

Words near multiplicatory in the dictionary

  1. multiplicatively
  2. multiplicatives
  3. multiplicativity
  4. multiplicator
  5. multiplicators
  6. multiplicatory
  7. multiplicious
  8. multipliciously
  9. multiplicities
  10. multiplicitous
  11. multiplicity

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