multiplicatory

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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multiplicatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to multiply.
    • 2002, Berma Klein Goldewijk, Adalid Contreras Baspineiro, Paulo César Carbonari, Dignity and Human Rights: The Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, page 181:
      [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.